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NOAA Wildfire smoke predictor tool

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bmw
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NOAA Wildfire smoke predictor tool

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https://rapidrefresh.noaa.gov/hrrr/HRRR ... GreatLakes

Not the most user-friendly interface, but the most useful forecast maps are the surface, 1000ft, and 6000ft smoke predictions. Just click the little check-mark under LOOP and you'll get a 19-hour hourly forecast. They update these every hour and if you change the time in the drop-down box to the most recent 0, 6, 12, or 18z forecast, then it goes out a full 48 hours.

Looking at their archived forecasts from the past several days, the 48 hour predictions have been pretty good. Which is good news because the most recent one suggests that the worst of this ends today and that much of this smoke will be moving north and thinning out.
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