DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1830Z November 13, 2018.
SMOKE:
California...
Cloudiness was obscuring the Camp fire in northern California preventing
any smoke to be seen in satellite imagery which is likely still present
at the very least in the vicinity of the fire. A flare up of the Woolsey
fire near the border of Ventura and Los Angeles counties this morning
resulted in a new burst of thick smoke which spread to the west and
southwest and off the coast to the east and southeast of the northern
most Channel Islands. The smoke emitted during the past few days by
these wildfires remains aloft well off the southern California and
Baja California coastlines with another patch visible off the northern
California and Oregon coastlines. More smoke may actually be present
along and off the U.S. West Coast but cloudiness is inhibiting smoke
detection in satellite imagery.
DUST:
Arizona/Northwest Mexico...
A stripe of moderately dense blowing dust was visible moving to the west
from the Wilcox Playa in southeastern Arizona. Another batch of blowing
dust was noted spreading to the southwest from a source in the west
central portion of the Mexican state of Sonora in northwest Mexico. Also,
multiple swaths of blowing dust of varying density were seen spreading
to the west and southwest from spots in northern and central Baja.
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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