DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0230Z September 12, 2020
SMOKE:
Very Large Area from the Eastern Pacific Across Much of the
Lower 48/Southern Canada/Northwestern Mexico/Northwestern Gulf of
Mexico/Atlantic East of the Northeast…
The ongoing very large wildfires burning primarily in Washington, Oregon,
and California with a few in Idaho and western Montana were responsible
for a massive area of smoke which stretched from the eastern Pacific
off the West Coast of the U.S. eastward over much of the lower 48 and
off the Northeast U.S. Coast. The only locations over the lower 48 which
were relatively smoke free were a portion of the Southeast and parts of
Montana, Wyoming, and possibly northwestern North Dakota. The thickest
smoke which was very dense blanketed virtually all of Washington,
Oregon, California, Arizona, and northwestern Mexico with relatively
thicker smoke also located over New Mexico and across northwestern Texas,
western Oklahoma, and central Kansas. Thick smoke also spread to the west
off the West Coast of the U.S. and Baja over the eastern Pacific. More
individual thicker smoke plumes were visible moving to the east and
southeast from wildfires burning in southern British Columbia, Idaho,
and western Montana.
JS
Earlier This Morning...
Atlantic...
A detached light density plume was detected over the open ocean waters
southeast of Newfoundland.
DUST:
Atlantic...
A thin plume of Saharan dust covered the eastern tropical and subtropical
Atlantic.
Konon
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/data/land/fire/currenthms.jpg
GIS: ftp://satpsanone.nesdis.noaa.gov/FIRE/HMS/GIS/
KML: http://www.ospo.noaa.gov/data/land/fire/fire.kml (fire)
http://www.ospo.noaa.gov/data/land/fire/smoke.kml (smoke)
ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS REGARDING THIS PRODUCT SHOULD BE SENT TO:
SSDFireTeam@noaa.gov