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Fire Smoke Spreads Westward

By: mandi On: 10:21 PM
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  • Both satellite imagery and visible reports have shown something that is relatively unusual---smoke form eastern Washington fires spreading westward over western WA.  Here is a sequence of visible satellite images showing this, followed by a high res MODIS satellite image...really obvious:






     The strong easterly flow was seen in the winds measured by the Sand Point profiler over N. Seattle:


    Among the reports was one from a glider pilot east of Lake Sammamish (Bruce Williams), who took an amazing picture from the air showing the smoke:








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