DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0200Z November 11, 2018.
SMOKE:
California...
Thick smoke from the Camp wildfire in northern California's Butte County
spread mainly to the south down the Sacramento Valley and San Joaquin
Valley during the day. Remnant moderately dense to thick smoke from
this fire also blanketed much of the remainder of central California
including the San Francisco-Oakland metro areas. Additional smoke from
this fire also covered areas farther to the southwest and well offshore
and farther to the south over southern California where it merged with
smoke from the Hill and Woosley wildfires which were continuing to burn
in southeast Ventura and southwest Los Angeles Counties. During the
afternoon, the thicker smoke from the Hill and Woosley fires moved more
to the east and southeast and fanned out over the Los Angeles Basin and
the interior of southern California. The leading edge of the smoke was
approaching the northern part of San Diego just prior to sunset. In
addition, yesterday's strong offshore winds pushed moderately dense
to thick smoke from the Hill and Woosley fires well off the coast of
southern California where it still resides this afternoon mixing with
smoke from the northern California Camp wildfire. A relatively narrow
swath of thinner density smoke likely attributed to both the northern
and southern California wildfires extended eastward over far southern
Nevada and over the northern portion of Arizona with a second narrow swath
stretching from central Baja across northwestern Mexico to southern New
Mexico and far western Texas. A smaller wildfire (Alder fire) located in
Tulare county of east central California was producing a smaller patch
of moderate to thick density smoke which appeared to spread mostly to
the east and east-southeast during the day mixing with smoke from the
larger California wildfires.
DUST:
Far Southern Oregon/Far Northeastern California/Northern and Central
Nevada...
A stripe of thin density dust originating from a source in southern Lake
County of south central Oregon moved to the south across far northwestern
Nevada and far northeastern California. Farther to the east, thin density
blowing dust was visible emanating from several sources in extreme
western Elko County of north central Nevada with the dust spreading to
the south. A very small patch of blowing dust was noted moving south
from a source in far southwestern Lander County of central Nevada.
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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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