DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0230Z November 9, 2018.
SMOKE:
Western Sacramento Valley...
The major wildfire in northern California roughly between Chico and
Oroville continues to grow in size per satellite imagery. A large smoke
plume of moderate to thick density from this fire spread and fanned
out quickly to the west,southwest, and south reaching Ukiah, the San
Francisco-Oakland metro areas, and south of Monterey and offshore over
the Pacific off the central California coast.
Southwestern San Joaquin Valley...
The ongoing fire in Sequoia National Park west of Visalia in Tulare County
also was emitting moderately dense to thick smoke which spread mainly
to the west and southwest along the western edge of the southern Sierras.
Southern California...
Two wildfire complexes started this afternoon in the southern portions of
Ventura County of southern California with moderate to locally thick
density smoke plumes moving to the southwest and off the coast of
southern California.
Northwestern U.S./Southwestern Canada...
A significant amount of seasonal/agricultural burning was detected
across portions of western Montana, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington in
the Northwestern U.S. and British Columbia and Alberta in Southwestern
Canada. Primarily thin density smoke was visible with only some of
these fires especially in the Northwestern U.S. while thin cloudiness
interfered with smoke detection in southwestern Canada.
DUST:
Southern California/Western Arizona...
Rather thin patches of blowing dust were observed moving to the southwest
across some of the desert region of southeastern California. A narrow
swath of thin density blowing dust could be seen moving to the south
from a source in central Mohave County of western Arizona.
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THIS TEXT PRODUCT IS PRIMARILY INTENDED TO DESCRIBE SIGNIFICANT AREAS OF
SMOKE ASSOCIATED WITH ACTIVE FIRES AND SMOKE WHICH HAS BECOME DETACHED
FROM THE FIRES AND DRIFTED SOME DISTANCE AWAY FROM THE SOURCE FIRE.
TYPICALLY OVER THE COURSE OF ONE OR MORE DAYS. AREAS OF BLOWING DUST ARE
ALSO DESCRIBED. USERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO VIEW A GRAPHIC DEPICTION OF THESE
AND OTHER PLUMES WHICH ARE LESS EXTENSIVE AND STILL ATTACHED TO THE SOURCE
FIRE IN VARIOUS GRAPHIC FORMATS ON OUR WEB SITE:
JPEG: http://www.ospo.noaa.gov/data/land/fire/currenthms.jpg
GIS: ftp://satpsanone.nesdis.noaa.gov/FIRE/HMS/GIS/
KML: http://www.ospo.noaa.gov/data/land/fire/fire.kml (fire)
http://www.ospo.noaa.gov/data/land/fire/smoke.kml (smoke)
ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS REGARDING THIS PRODUCT SHOULD BE SENT TO:
SSDFireTeam@noaa.gov