DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0200Z November 22, 2018.
SMOKE:
California...
Cloudiness along with some rain continued to overspread portions of
California during the day which prevented any additional information on
any remaining smoke present from the recent wildfire activity.
Central-South Central-Southeastern U.S...
Numerous relatively small seasonal type fires were detected over
portions of the Central, South Central, and Southeastern U.S. with thin
density smoke plumes visible emanating from at least some of these fires
especially over the Southeast.
Northwestern U.S./Southwestern Canada...
More seasonal type fire activity was scattered across portions of the
Northwestern U.S. and over Southwestern Canada though very little smoke
could be seen in satellite imagery due to cloudiness passing over much
of these areas.
JS
Earlier This Morning...
SMOKE:
California...
An area of light to moderately dense smoke associated with the Alder
wildfire in the Sequoia National Forest in Tulare County is moving north
reaching the southern portion of the Sierra Mountain chain. Cloud cover
across central/northern sections of the state are blocking the view of
residual smoke that was moving north yesterday.
Southern Florida...
Numerous fires burning south of Lake Okochobee are producing an area of
light smoke moving south across the southern sections of the Florida,
but not reaching the coastline.
J Kibler
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