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 Northwest Territories into the north Atlantic and the Arctic. Thicker smoke was concentrated around fires in northern Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and western Ontario. Medium density smoke was seen drifting further east over the rest of Ontario and Quebec towards the Atlantic. Western United States... Multiple fires throughout the western portion of the United States were producing moderate plumes of smoke traveling east, merging with the smoke produced from the Canadian fires. The largest fires and denser plumes were observed in Idaho, Utah, and Arizona, and smaller plumes along the coast from northern California. Libby 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