DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0300Z August 24, 2017
SMOKE: Northwest US into the Plains and British Columbia into Alberta Canada... Thinner density smoke attributed to the wildfire activity over southwestern Canada and portions of the Northwestern US was visible extending from off the southern California and Baja coast northward over California, western and northern Nevada, much of Oregon, eastern Washington, Idaho, Montana and the northern half of Wyoming. The smoke then moved to the east and southeast over much of the Northern and Central Plains. Areas of moderately dense to thick smoke were located over southern British Columbia, central and southern Alberta, and central and southern Saskatchewan in Canada along with northwestern California, Oregon, eastern Washington, the northern half of Idaho, much of Montana, and northern Wyoming. Central and Eastern Canada/Area from the North Central US to the Northeast... A very large area of smoke covered virtually all of central and eastern Canada with the exception of a portion of Quebec. The area of smoke also affected the region from the North Central US to the Northeast. Moderately dense to thick smoke stretched from Nunavut to extreme northern Quebec. The thicker smoke also impacted Hudson Bay, and a good portion of Manitoba along with western Ontario. The smoke gradually thinned out as it spread to the southeast with a ribbon of moderately dense smoke stretching from northern Minnesota across the Great Lakes Region. Much of this smoke was rather long lived and leftover mainly from the ongoing wildfires burning over central and southwestern Canada though some of it may also be from wildfire activity over the Northwestern US. JS Earlier Today... Western Atlantic... A mass of light to moderately dense smoke was seen off the mid Atlantic and New England coast and extends to the east northeast to the south of Nova Scotia and the southeast tip of Newfoundland. DUST: Caribbean... An area of Saharan dust was detected over the southeastern Bahamas and eastern Cuba and extending to the east across Hispaniola and Puerto Rico and the Lesser Antilles. 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