DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0200Z November 21, 2018.
SMOKE:
California/Pacific Northwest Coastline....
During the afternoon, the area of moderate to thick smoke closer to the
Camp fire in Butte County was moving generally to the north. Thinner
density smoke from this fire reached close to the California-Oregon
border though cloudiness began moving over the region which significantly
limited smoke detection in satellite imagery later in the day. Farther
to the south, the patch of moderately dense to thick smoke closer to
the Alder fire in the Sequoia National Forest in Tulare County shifted
more to the north and eventually to the north-northeast by late in the
afternoon which placed the thicker smoke over the south-central portion
of the Sierra Mountain chain. Thin to moderately dense smoke from the
Alder fire and the Camp fire still lingered over the Sacramento Valley
and San Joaquin Valley regions. The earlier thinner density smoke which
was noted this morning along and off the coastal portions of central
and northern California and along and off the Pacific Northwest Coast
was no longer visible due to cloudiness overspreading this area.
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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