DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0200Z September 12, 2014
SMOKE California: A large area of smoke from the The Happy Camp and July complex fires in northern California was seen over northern California, southwest Oregon and northwest Nevada. The smoke was also being blown out into the Pacific off the northern California coast. Moderate to dense smoke was over the fire complexes and straddling much of the California/Oregon border. An area of light smoke from the Meadow fire near Yosemite was mainly drifting to the west into the central valley and northward over the western slopes of the Sierra. Idaho/Washington: Numerous agricultural fires in northern Idaho and southeast Washington were generating an area of light smoke as the individual plumes merged together. The smoke area was generally drifting to the west. Northwest Territories: The long running fires to the west of Great Slave Lake in Northwest Territories Canada have increased the past couple of days and are generating a plume of light to moderate smoke that is moving to the southeast into northern Alberta. The full extent of the smoke is hard to discern due to extensive clouds over the area. OTHER: Washington: Volcanic ash from the Mt St Helen's eruption in 1980 has been resuspended in the air by high winds in the area. The ash was moving to the west of the summit. Ruminski 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