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General Weather/Earth Sciences Topics => Weather Conditions Discussion => Topic started by: gwwilk on August 11, 2018, 01:21:28 PM

Title: Smoky Skies Today in Much of Upper Mississippi Valley per GOES-16
Post by: gwwilk on August 11, 2018, 01:21:28 PM

I was shocked to see how much smoke from Canadian and US forest fires has occluded GOES-16's view of much of the Upper Mississippi Valley (https://www.gwwilkins.org/wxGOES16-HAniSLoops.php) today, especially Minnesota and central Iowa!

(https://www.gwwilkins.org/temp-images/20180811-GOES16-Geocolor.jpg)

Even my webcams here in Lincoln, NE currently see almost no blue sky, just grayish-white for the most part.

(https://www.gwwilkins.org/temp-images/HikVision-PV1-20180811.jpg)

Here (https://www.gwwilkins.org/wxAQI.php) is today's Air Quality and Forecast.

Title: Re: Smoky Skies Today in Much of Upper Mississippi Valley per GOES-16
Post by: ValentineWeather on August 11, 2018, 01:40:19 PM

Looks bad, I was under impression it was western US burning but that smoke is coming out of Canada US border area. Live here https://www.valentinenebraska.net/wxGOES16-HAniSLoops.php

Title: Re: Smoky Skies Today in Much of Upper Mississippi Valley per GOES-16
Post by: chief-david on August 11, 2018, 03:27:12 PM

I am in Fargo today. You can see the smoke in the sky and it is gray. Yesterday was worse