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Author Bill GabbertPosted on Categories Uncategorized2 Comments on Washington DC affected by wildfire smoke Above: A view of Washington DC late Tuesday afternoon, apparently showing visibility degraded by smoke from wildfires. Credit: EarthCam.
Satellite photos show smoke from wildfires stretching out into the Atlantic Ocean. It appears that the air quality in Washington, DC was affected on Tuesday afternoon.
Author Bill GabbertPosted on Categories Uncategorized9 Comments on Wildfire smoke forecast for Tuesday, November 15 Above: Smoke from wildfires in the southern United States as photographed by a NASA satellite Tuesday afternoon, November 15, 2016; updated late Tuesday afternoon.
We checked several resources for predictions of where smoke from the wildfires in Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia will be distributed on Tuesday. It looks like much of Georgia and South Carolina will be heavily affected, with concentrations in some areas of South Carolina reaching the “Very Unhealthy” level according to the animated map below.
Some areas in the midwest appear to be affected by smoke that blew in from fires in Canada.
Arkansas, Louisiana, and eastern Texas are also heavily contributing to the smoky skies.
Check AirNow.gov for current air quality information. Click on their map to zoom in for a closer look.
An air quality index of 201 to 300 is “Very Unhealthy”.
#Smoke forecast for the next 24 hrs. #ncwx #scwx #cltwx #wildfire pic.twitter.com/WvYrbnvOSi
— Brad Panovich (@wxbrad) November 15, 2016
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.@NSWRFS Camera captures fire intensity and ember showers causing spot fires as well as impact on homes at yesterday's Londonderry fire pic.twitter.com/mbAzo5q7zK
— Shane Fitzsimmons (@RFSCommissioner) November 14, 2016
Impressive video from New South Wales in Australia.
Author Bill GabbertPosted on Categories Uncategorized11 Comments on Wildfire smoke causes air quality to worsen in TN, SC, and NC Above: Smoke from wildfires as photographed by a NASA satellite November 13, 2015.
The wildfires in the southeast continue to produce large quantities of smoke that in recent days has not been migrating out of the area very quickly. The AirNow.gov forecast for air quality predicts “Unhealthy” conditions Monday and Tuesday in Asheville, NC valleys and Hickory, NC.
The smoke forecast from NOAA’s Earth System Research Laboratory for 11 p.m. ET on Monday shows intensifying smoke in eastern Georgia and the western portions of North Carolina and South Carolina.
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Above: The map shows the location of some of the larger wildfires currently burning in Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee.
There are still dozens of wildfires burning in the southern United States, primarily in Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee. Firefighters have slowed the progress of many of them but others are still spreading. The weather on Sunday was not quite as conducive to extreme fire behavior, but most areas are still extremely dry and have not had significant precipitation in weeks.
The weather forecast for the Asheville, NC area through Saturday, November 12, calls for more of the same weather — moderate winds, daily high temperatures in the 60s, and relative humidities in the 80s at night and the 30s in the afternoon.
Below are some statistics for the active fires in the Southern Geographic Area:
Here is a look at five of the more active blazes:
Party Rock Fire
The Party Rock Fire has been burning just north of Lake Lure, North Carolina since November 5. It has blackened 3,457 acres and required evacuations in the Chimney Rock community. On Saturday and Sunday it grew by 574 acres, with most of the additional acres being on the southwest and northwest sides.
Tellico Fire
The Tellico Fire three miles south of Almond, North Carolina expanded by 3,791 acres over the weekend and now stretches across 13,676 acres after merging with another fire, the Ferebee Fire. It spotted across the Little Tennessee River to the east, but that spot was contained at about 100 acres. U.S. Highway 19 on the west side of the fire was closed on Sunday.
A firefighter in New South Wales was struck by a falling tree branch, but is now out of the hospital.
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