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Fire Smoke Spreads Westward

Written By Hourpost on Thursday, September 13, 2012 | 10:21 PM

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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