DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0300Z August 29 2014
Northwestern US: A very large fire flared up in Siskiyou County of northern California during the day resulting in a swath of dense smoke which moved to the east reaching south central Idaho by late in the day. Other fires in western Oregon contributed to the larger surrounding area of thin to moderately dense smoke. Lower Mississippi Valley: Numerous fires burning in southeastern Arkansas and western Mississippi resulted in a region of thin density smoke which moved to the north over the lower Mississippi Valley region during the afternoon and evening. Canada: Patches of detached smoke likely attributed to the ongoing fires across portions of western and northwestern Canada were visible during the day scattered across various portions of Canada stretching eastward all the way to Baffin Bay just west of Greenland. Cloudiness did interfere with a more precise determination of the extent and density of the smoke. 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