DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0200Z September 9, 2017

SMOKE:
Western and Central US and Canada:
A large area of smoke once again covers much of the Western and Central US
west of the Mississippi River and Western and Central Canada from Hudson
Bay westward to British Columbia and the Northwest Territories. Much
of the smoke is from the wildfires burning in the Pacific Northwest
and northern Rockies although the much of the smoke in Central Canada
is from very active wildfires in northern Saskatchewan and along the
Alberta/Northwest Territories border. The most dense smoke covers much of
eastern Washington, northern Idaho, western and central Montana and then
drops to the southeast across much of Wyoming, eastern Colorado and into
western Nebraska. The dense smoke also extends across southeast British
Columbia, much of the southeast half of Alberta, northern Saskatchewan
and northern Manitoba into western Hudson Bay. The full extent of the
smoke over the Great Basin and parts of Oregon is not clear due to cloud
cover over the region.

Gulf Coast...
An area of light remnant smoke from the Western wildfires has settled
along the Gulf Coast from southern Texas eastward across the northern
Gulf of Mexico, the Florida  Panhandle and southeast Georgia and South
Carolina.

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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

Unless otherwise indicated:

Areas of smoke are analyzed using GOES-EAST and GOES-WEST Visible satellite imagery.

Only a general description of areas of smoke or significant smoke plumes will be analyzed.

A quantitative assessment of the density/amount of particulate or the vertical distribution is not included.

Widespread cloudiness may prevent the detection of smoke even from significant fires.