DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0300Z August 7, 2013
Smoke: Northern Plains/West Coast: An area of light to moderate density smoke continues to dominate much of the west coast. Light smoke is visible from Oregon, Washington, and Idaho as far east as Wyoming and continues to move eastward. An additional pocket of remnant smoke is visible stretching from central Nebraska through Iowa to southern Wisconsin and continues to travel eastward at sunset. Another area of light smoke is visible through central California including a small pocket in western Nevada due to the Power and Aspen wildfires taking place there. Additional wildfires across central Idaho, central and western Oregon and central California have contributed to the smoke across this region. Central Canada: An expansive area of thin to moderately dense smoke is visible covering much of central and northern Canada from the US border to the Arctic. Smoke continues to swirl across north and south in portions of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, northeast British Columbia, Northwest Territories and Nunavut provinces. The most dense smoke is primarily concentrated over central Northwest Territories, Alberta, and Saskatchewan due to the multiple wildfires taking place there. A smaller pocket of medium density smoke is visible moving south over the border into North Dakota and Minnesota. Blowing Dust: Caribbean/Gulf of Mexico/Southern Texas: The large area of Saharan dust plume that has been visible over the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean is now making landfall over southern Texas. Oegerle 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.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