Monday, August 22, 2011

DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0145Z August 23, 2011


Northern Plains/southeast Saskatchewan/southwest Manitoba:
A light area of residual smoke from the fires in Montana/Idaho was seen
drifting east across the eastern Dakotas into western Minnesota and
through south central Canada. The smoke has become quite diffuse and
the exact extent is difficult to determine.

Montana/Idaho/Wyoming:
Numerous wildfires exploded this afternoon/evening across northern
Wyoming, southern and western Montana and northern Idaho. This has
spread plumes of thick smoke eastward across the area reaching into
western South Dakota, northeast Colorado and western Nebraska.

Southern California and Baja Mexico:
Several fires over southern California and in northern Baja generated
plumes of mainly light smoke. The smoke in southern California was
moving mostly to the northeast while the smoke in Baja was drifting top
the southeast.

Ruminski

THIS TEXT PRODUCT IS PRIMARILY INTENDED TO DESCRIBE SIGNIFICANT
AREAS 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.osdpd.noaa.gov/ml/land/hms.html
GIS:    http://www.firedetect.noaa.gov/viewer.htm
KML:    http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/FIRE/kml.html
ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS REGARDING THIS PRODUCT SHOULD BE SENT TO
SSDFireTeam@noaa.gov

 


Unless otherwise indicated:
  • Areas of smoke are analyzed using GOES-EAST and GOES-WEST Visible satellite imagery.
  • Only a general description of areas of smoke or significant smoke plumes will be analyzed.
  • A quantitative assessment of the density/amount of particulate or the vertical distribution is not included.
  • Widespread cloudiness may prevent the detection of smoke even from significant fires.