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The EPA has deployed portable radiation monitors to several locations including Guam, Hawaii, and Alaska. Below, there is a graph of the readings from the monitor located in Dutch Harbor, Alaska. The Alaskan location is in the Aleutians west of the Alaskan mainland. This location was probably selected because the jet stream often carries weather systems from Asia to the West Coast of the USA via the Aleutians.

Radnet Portable Dutch Harbor to 19 Mar 2pm PDT

I’ve pulled updated radiation plots for San Francisco and Sacramento…

Radnet San Francisco to 19 Mar 2pm PDT

Radnet Sacramento to 19 Mar 2pm PDT

Here are two more plots from the EPA’s data, for San Francisco and San Jose.

San Francisco

San Jose

And also Sacramento for comparison.

Sacramento

Please note all data comes from the Environmental Protection Agency. Data was pulled at approximately 8:20PDT 18 March 2011.