DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 2030Z August 6, 2017
SMOKE: Pacific Northwest... Fires in British Columbia and northern Washington continue to produce large quantities of smoke. This smoke was observed caught in some circulation and appears to confined mostly to the Northwest. Heavy cloud cover made it difficult to track. Northern and Central Canada... A large area of smoke from fires over the southern Northwest Territories, northern Manitoba, northern Saskatchewan and northern Alberta covered much of central and northern Canada. An area of moderate density smoke extended from northern Saskatchewan east into Hudson Bay and northern Ontario. California... Fires in northwest California are producing moderate levels of smoke that was observed traveling due north into Oregon. DUST: Caribbean... An area of Saharan dust covered portions of the southwest Atlantic extending southwest through Florida towards the western Caribbean and southern Gulf of Mexico into the Bay Campeche. Westbrook 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