Smoke Impact Summary #5 Soberanes Wildfire
Air Basin: North Center Coast CAL
Fire IMT 4 w/ USFS
Issued for August 2nd, 2016 Prepared
by: Gary M. Curcio ARA
Time 8:00 PM Steve
Fraidenburg ARA (T)
Fire Status & Key Points:
1.
Total
fire acreage has been adjusted today at 40,714
acres.
2.
Yesterday
the fire experienced an estimated growth of 2,707 acres.
3. Projected smoke emission impact is
estimated at 4,000 acres.
Photo: IR fire perimeter & MODIS heat
signatures identify active burning on the fire’s east side. This E/SE
side of the fire is where fire growth continues to occur and continues to
be the main emission source impacting local Carmel Valley and Salinas
Valley communities. On the SE corner of the fire perimeter most recent
MODIS heat signatures (red) are capturing todays burnout operation. Because of favorable fire weather and
fire behavior, burnout has progressed as expeditiously as possible always
evaluating situational conditions.
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Photo above: Sunday 8/2 at 6:30 PM PDT.
Photo: IR Flight
from last night August 1st
IR heat intensity is very similar to the previous night.
It still identifies areas of intense heat (red shading),
scattered heat (yellow shading) and isolated heat spots (red dots). Still with
numerous sources of emissions in combination with the burnout operation, the
eastern and southern sides of the fire will continue to affect AQ in local
communities.
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Photo above: IR Flight from last night August 1st
5.
The extent of smoke
production and its long range drift are displayed below. It is anticipated that this smoke will turn
more to the SE as the night time progresses.
Photo: NOAA
Hazard Mapping System-August 2.
1) Green = light , 2) Yellow = medium & 3) Red =
dense (only shown in the left picture). These colored layers are not
defined by their elevation above ground. However, they do provide valuable
information concerning the horizontal extent of wildfire’s smoke plume or
zone of influence
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6.
Smoke transport tomorrow will be similar to
what was experienced today. It begin with Westerly
winds and later becoming NW. The Carmel, Salinas and San Joaquin Valleys
were impacted by the burnout operation as captured by the visible satellite
image and pictures from Carmel Valley Road and Laureles Grade. The smokes initial transport was
affected by west winds then experienced deflections into the Carmel and Salinas
Valleys while some smoke continued and breached the Gabilan Range and filtered
into San Joaquin Valley.
Photo
Above: taken facing east from the East
Carmel Valley Road at 3:18 p.m on Tuesday August 2. Smoke was drifting to the
east with 6 ridges visible from the photo location.
Photo
right: taken facing southeast from
the Laureles Grade at 4:15 p.m. August 2. Smoke from the main fire drifting to
the northeast with transport winds.
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