DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0230Z August 24, 2012
Northwest US into Northern Plains and southern Canada: Smoke from wildfires in northern California, Oregon, and Idaho is spreading east and northeast again this evening and stretches from northern California and southern Oregon eastward across much of Idaho and Wyoming, southern Montana, the Dakotas and Minnesota and into southern Saskatchewan and Manitoba and southwest Ontario. The smoke over the northern Plains and southern Canada was mainly light density while much of the smoke area from California and Oregon into Montana was moderate to thick density. Alaska: Remnant smoke from a fire in central Alaska near Fairbanks has drifted northward and was now on the north end of the Brooks range moving toward the coastal plain southeast of Barrow. 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