DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
SMOKE: Central Canada... Wildfires continued to burn in the Northwest Territories, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba, generating a large area of light smoke stretching east from the Yukon into the north Atlantic. Thicker smoke was concentrated around fires in the Northwest Territories, Saskatchewan and Manitoba, with some smoke drifting south towards the Great Lakes region. Western United States... Multiple fires throughout the western United States were producing moderate plumes of smoke moving mainly east. The largest fires and denser plumes were observed in Idaho, Utah, and Arizona, and smaller plumes along the coast from northern California to the Olympic Peninsula. Eastern United States... An area of light smoke was observed over the eastern United States from Texas to Maine, likely from agricultural burns and smoke drifting south from Canada. Mills THIS TEXT PRODUCT IS PRIMARILY INTENDED TO DESCRIBE SIGNIFICANT AREAS OF SMOKE ASSOCIATED WITH ACTIVE FIRES AND SMOKE WHICH HAS BECOME DETACHED FROM THE FIRES AND DRIFTED SOME DISTANCE AWAY FROM THE SOURCE FIRE, TYPICALLY OVER THE COURSE OF ONE OR MORE DAYS. AREAS OF BLOWING DUST ARE ALSO DESCRIBED. USERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO VIEW A GRAPHIC DEPICTION OF THESE AND OTHER PLUMES WHICH ARE LESS EXTENSIVE AND STILL ATTACHED TO THE SOURCE FIRE IN VARIOUS GRAPHIC FORMATS ON OUR WEB SITE: JPEG:http://www.ospo.noaa.gov/data/land/fire/currenthms.jpg Smoke data: https://satepsanone.nesdis.noaa.gov/pub/FIRE/web/HMS/Smoke_Polygons Fire data: https://satepsanone.nesdis.noaa.gov/pub/FIRE/web/HMS/Fire_Points ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS REGARDING THIS PRODUCT SHOULD BE SENT TO: SSDFireTeam@noaa.gov