June 29, 2008
Improving in CA and the northeast degrading in Texas and southeast
The fires continue in the west, but offshore flow is taking the smoke to the northwest.
The NOAA forecast guidance (lower left panel) shows that the smoke will continue up the coast towards Washington and Oregon. MODIS AQUA's RGB superimposed with the local temperatures and wind barbs is shown in the figure on the right. AIRNOW's surface readings in California today are shown here.
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As Ruben, Amy and Meloe have pointed out for the last few days, a big pulse of Saharan dust has been coming across from Africa and now is in the middle of the Caribbean. We are testing a new blog with our colleagues in the SERVIR project in Panama. Ruben posted the prediction of this plume on the new Mesoamerican and Caribbean Smog Blog (posted in Spanish). In the panel in the left, GASP has detected a pulse of high AOD of nearly unity near Texas. The AIRNOW concentrations for PM increased in Texas and Louisiana throughout the day.
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On Friday night, Calipso had an overpass over the eastern Caribbean and the big yellow plume in this image is Saharan dust.
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And finally, congratulations to Ana Prados whose Spanish team won the Eurocup 2008!
Posted by Ray Hoff at June 29, 2008 9:00 PMAh, I was rooting for our NOAA partner Germany but they stank. So good for Spain. They played like champions.
Posted by: Shobha Kondragunta at June 29, 2008 11:51 PMthanks indeed, campeones !! It was a good day to be in spain vacationing.....
Posted by: Ana Prados at July 12, 2008 9:13 PM