DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0300Z October 24, 2017
SMOKE: Arizona... Several fires across north central, central, and east central Arizona resulted in smoke which spread generally to the south during the day. The fire in north central Arizona to the north of the Grand Canyon was emitting moderately dense to thick smoke. Northern North Dakota/South Central Canada... Numerous seasonal/agricultural fires were detected across northern North Dakota, southern Saskatchewan, and southern Manitoba with a few thin density smoke plumes visible moving mainly to the southeast. Some cloudiness in the region did hinder additional smoke detection in satellite imagery. Pacific Northwest... Seasonal/agricultural fires along with a number of localized thin density smoke plumes were seen primarily over the western portions of Washington and Oregon. British Columbia/Alberta... Quite a few seasonal fires were analyzed scattered across portions of British Columbia and Alberta in western Canada though little smoke could be seen. Clouds in the region though did interfere with smoke detection in satellite imagery. JS Earlier This Morning... DUST: Southern Florida/Bahamas/Western North Atlantic Ocean... A thin layer of Saharan dust was observed extending from Florida eastward into two separate cyclonic features, one south of Bermuda and one southeast of Bermuda. This strip of Saharan Dust appeared to be moving to the east with the two cyclonic features. Caribbean Sea/Atlantic Ocean... Saharan dust was also observed across much of the Caribbean Sea extending eastward into the Tropical North Atlantic. This feature is thinner than observations from over the past few days. This feature appeared to be moving west towards Honduras and Nicaragua. -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