DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1630Z September 13, 2017
SMOKE: Northwestern US/Central US/Northeastern US/Southwestern to Southeastern Canada/Western Atlantic... The extensive area of thin density smoke continues to be visible this time stretching from off the northern California coast and the Pacific Northwest eastward over Montana to the North Central US, across the Great Lakes region to the Northeast and from there well of the Northeast and Middle Atlantic coast over the open Atlantic. The thin density smoke also extended from the North Central US southward over much of Texas, northern Mexico, and the western Gulf of Mexico. Over Canada, the smoke extended from far southern British Columbia eastward all the way to southeastern Quebec and New Brunswick. Thicker smoke within the large mass of thin density smoke stretched from the numerous wildfires burning in central and northern Idaho and western Montana eastward across the far North Central US and South Central Canada. A narrow ribbon of moderately dense smoke also arced from northern Michigan to eastern Kansas. Farther to the west, patches of moderately dense to locally thicker smoke were located across portions of Oregon and northern California. The primary sources for virtually all of this smoke described above were wildfires burning in central Canada, portions of Washington, Oregon, and northern California and especially the significant wildfire activity in western Montana and central and northern Idaho. JS 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