DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0345Z August 8, 2013
California: Two larger areas of smoke can be seen through central California near the Power and Aspen wildfires burning in that region and then another in northern California where a few wildfires are burning in that region. A new fire is producing copious amounts of smoke in south central California. The smoke is moving off to the east-southeast near the Salton Sea towards Arizona. Dust: Caribbean/Gulf of Mexico/Southern Texas: There continues to be a large area of elevated Saharan dust that can be seen across much of the Gulf of Mexico and into portions of southern Texas through sunset. From earlier today: Smoke: Northern Plains/Inter-mountain West/Pacific Northwest: Several areas of mostly light remnant smoke can be seen pushing southward through extreme southern Canada and into the northern Plains and upper-Midwest today. This is likely remnant smoke from the large wildfires that continue burning through Northwest Territories. There is one area of embedded medium density smoke that can be seen moving southeastward into northern Minnesota and Wisconsin. Further west, two large wildfires burning in northwest Wyoming are putting out a large area of light to heavy density smoke that is moving eastward and reaching portions of eastern South Dakota/Nebraska. Through the Inter-mountain and Pacific Northwest, several fires burning through Washington and Oregon are leading to a few areas of remnant and new smoke moving eastward towards Idaho and extreme western Wyoming. Central and Northern Canada/Alaska: A very large area of remnant and new light to very dense smoke is seen throughout portions of northern and central Canada today and also into parts of central and northeastern Alaska. Numerous wildfires continue to burn into the southern portion of Northwest Territories as well as into central and eastern Alaska. These wildfires are putting out moderate to heavy density smoke throughout this region. Liddick 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