DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0200Z November 10, 2018.
SMOKE:
Northern California/Santa Ana Mountains/Pacific Ocean...
The Camp wildfire in northern California continues to produce very
thick smoke which generally spread to the south and west though some
of the northern portion of the smoke over the northern Sacramento
Valley was gradually spreading to the north toward Redding by late
in the day. Thicker smoke from this fire blanketed much of north
central California from the Sacramento Valley (including the city of
Sacramento) westward to the northern and central coast (including the
San Francisco-Oakland metro areas) and well offshore from there where
it merged with smoke from the southern California wildfires.
Southern California/Southern Arizona...
Huge destructive wildfires in southeastern Ventura and southwestern Los
Angeles counties were emitting large quantities of dense smoke which
moved to the southwest and fanning out as it pushed offshore. The smoke
eventually merged offshore with smoke emanating from the Camp wildfire in
northern California. In addition, a narrow swath of mainly thin density
smoke from the southern California fires had wrapped back inland to the
east over northern Baja and a portion of southern Arizona.
Southeastern San Joaquin Valley...
The ongoing Alder fire in Sequoia National Park was observed emitting
moderately dense to thick smoke this afternoon. The smoke is initially
moving off toward the valley to the west, but then also fanning out to
the north and south along the western slopes of the nearby Sierras.
Northwestern U.S./Southwestern Canada...
Another day of extensive seasonal/agricultural fires was seen over
portions of western Montana, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington in the
Northwestern U.S. and British Columbia, Alberta, and southern Saskatchewan
in southwestern Canada. Little smoke though was visible in satellite
imagery in part due to higher cloudiness passing across the region.
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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)
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SSDFireTeam@noaa.gov