DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0300Z August 13, 2014
Western and Northwestern US: Extensive cloudiness prevented much in the way of some detection across this region though fires were still detected in this region. Northern and Central US: Mainly thin density smoke from the wildfires in the northwestern US as well as southwestern Canada and northwestern Canada was visible moving to the south across a large portion of the northern and central US. Canada: Areas of moderately dense to thick smoke continued to be emitted from wildfires over British Columbia in southwestern Canada and over the Northwest Territories and northern Alberta and Saskatchewan in northwestern Canada. The smoke generally moved to the east and northeast from these fires during the day. Somewhat thinner leftover smoke was also attributed to these fires farther to the east over central Canada and even far eastern Canada. JS 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.ospo.noaa.gov/Products/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