Author Topic: Smoky Skies Today in Much of Upper Mississippi Valley per GOES-16  (Read 1028 times)

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Offline gwwilk

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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 today, especially Minnesota and central Iowa!



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



Here is today's Air Quality and Forecast.
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Re: Smoky Skies Today in Much of Upper Mississippi Valley per GOES-16
« Reply #1 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


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Re: Smoky Skies Today in Much of Upper Mississippi Valley per GOES-16
« Reply #2 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



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