DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0330Z August 20, 2017
SMOKE: CANADA, NORTHERN U.S. Major wildfires continue to burn in the U.S. Pacific Northwest states, British Columbia, Manitoba and western Ontario Canada. As a result, thin density smoke blankets nearly all of Canada except the far northwest and southeast portions. The smoke also covers most of the contiguous northern United States, stretching from the Pacific Northwest to the eastern Great Lakes states. The smoke also bulges down into much of California and into the central Plains. Moderately dense and dense smoke stretches from northern California and southwest Oregon eastward across the northern Rockies into the northern Plains, the western and central Great Lakes and northward into much of Manitoba and Ontario. Additionally, very dense smoke was seen over the north Atlantic from the Labrador Sea eastward toward western Iceland. In the Pacific, an area of light smoke extended from off the northern California coast westward to about 40N155W and then curls south. Ruminski/Hosley 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