DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1730Z September 5, 2013
Central North America: A large area of light smoke covers the center of North America. The smoke extends from the Gulf Coast of Louisiana and Texas, through Texas, north into the Midwest before crossing into Canada where the smoke covers southern Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Ontario. There are two isolated pockets of medium density smoke. The first extends from Minnesota southeast through Iowa and Illinois where it becomes obscured by cloud cover. The other medium density plume extends east to west from Louisiana to Texas. Most of this smoke is likely from the large wildfires in California. California: The Rim Fire in central California is generating light to moderately dense smoke which is extending to the north. Remnant smoke from this fire can be seen extending southwest over the Pacific Ocean. -Salemi 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