DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0200Z October 31, 2019
SMOKE:
California...
A broad area of thin density smoke associated mainly with the Kincade
Fire in northern California was present along and off the coast of
northern and central California. Moderately dense to locally thick smoke
was still being produced by the fire during the day with the new and
thicker smoke moving off to the west. Farther to the south, the Getty
Fire near northern Los Angeles was emitting varying density smoke in a
rather narrow band which initially moved to the west and offshore where
the plume then curved more to the northwest off the southern and central
California coast. Additional fires in and near Los Angeles produced
primarily thin density smoke which moved quickly off to the west.
Baja...
Wildfires over northwestern Baja were responsible for an area of varying
density smoke affecting northwestern Baja and offshore as the smoke
moved to the west.
Northwestern U.S./Southwestern Canada...
Numerous seasonal type fires were detected over British Columbia and
portions of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and western Montana. Smoke plumes
of mainly thin density were visible with quite a few of these fires
especially across Oregon and northern Idaho. Little smoke was seen over
British Columbia in part due to cloudiness.
Southern Florida...
Agricultural fires near and south of Lake Okeechobee were producing thin
density smoke plumes which quickly moved off to the west during the day.
DUST:
California...
An area of blowing dust was observed moving to the north and northwest
from sources centered over San Bernardino County of south central
California. The dust fanned out as it moved to the north and northwest
reaching close to Monterey and Merced.
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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