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Mon Aug 24, 2020 11:41 am

Smoke forecast tools

I was bumping our 2017 Knowledge Base article "Hazards of Wildfire Smoke" this morning and rediscovered this cool smoke forecast visualization tool that I had listed in the Resources section:

https://hwp-viz.gsd.esrl.noaa.gov/smoke/#

Has this been very useful for people who are actually trying to fly out west?

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Mon Aug 24, 2020 2:59 pm

Re: Smoke forecast tools

I've been using this https://fire.airnow.gov/ and windy
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Mon Aug 24, 2020 3:15 pm

Re: Smoke forecast tools

gahi wrote:I've been using this https://fire.airnow.gov/ and windy


Looks like ground based sampling stations?
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Mon Aug 24, 2020 3:22 pm

Re: Smoke forecast tools

I stumbled onto that visualization tool the other day, super cool!
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Mon Aug 24, 2020 3:30 pm

Re: Smoke forecast tools

Zzz wrote:Looks like ground based sampling stations?


Yes
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Mon Aug 24, 2020 4:05 pm

Re: Smoke forecast tools

Just found this location specific tool: https://www.airnow.gov/
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Mon Aug 24, 2020 7:22 pm

Re: Smoke forecast tools

I like this one . Alertwildfire.org ..........Has a ton of webcams pointing in all kinds of different locations .
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Tue Aug 25, 2020 9:40 am

Re: Smoke forecast tools

idsmoke.blogspot.com
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Tue Aug 25, 2020 10:47 pm

Re: Smoke forecast tools

I refer to this for Western Canada.

http://firesmoke.ca/forecasts/current/
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