DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0200Z September 3, 2022
SMOKE: Much of the CONUS/Western Canada/Ontario/Nearshore Pacific/Atlantic... A large area of smoke was observed across western Canada, eastern Canada, much of the CONUS, the Atlantic Ocean, and the Pacific Ocean. The main contributors to the large area of smoke are primarily from wildfire activity burning across the Pacific northwest and western Canada. A number of thick density plumes were observed across northwestern U.S and Western Canada, with the most impressive plume emanating from the Cedar Creek Fire in central Oregon and extending north-northwest over Portland then arcing northeastward to southeastward across Washington State, just entering southern British Columbia. Other wildfire activity in northwestern Washington State and southern British Columbia was producing thick smoke extending across British Columbia into Alberta, while persistent wildfires in northern California were producing thick smoke moving north into Oregon. The smoke plumes over Idaho were generally moving north to northeast, but at a lesser speed than the previously mentioned plumes. From the Pacific Northwest, moderate smoke was extending east-southeast across Montana, Wyoming, South Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa, Wisconsin, northern Michigan, and into eastern Ontario ahead of a cold front. Some very light smoke was seen having made it out to the Atlantic along another front extending northeast from the Carolinas. Northeastern British Columbia/northern Alberta... Wildfire activity in northeastern British Columbia was observed producing thick smoke seen extending northeastward across northern Alberta. Remnant smoke was seen having moved east and southeast into the northern half and southeastern portions of Saskatchewan, barely reaching the US border with North Dakota. Eastern Kansas… A couple agricultural burns were noted across eastern Kansas, where the light to perhaps moderate smoke was moving west-northwestward. Mississippi Valley into the Southeast… Smoke plumes from agricultural burning from Arkansas into Mississippi were observed moving northwestward. It is likely that further smoke plumes are present, but the presence of scattered to broken cloud cover was inhibiting the ability to analyze smoke across Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and northern Florida. Smoke from these locations would likely also move northwestward given the direction low-level clouds were moving. DUST: Tropical Atlantic… Saharan Dust was seen extending from Africa west to about 50W over a tropical disturbance north-northwest of Cabo Verde. 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 map: https://www.ospo.noaa.gov/data/land/fire/currenthms.jpg Smoke data: https://satepsanone.nesdis.noaa.gov/pub/FIRE/web/HMS/Smoke_Polygons Fire data: https://satepsanone.nesdis.noaa.gov/pub/FIRE/web/HMS/Fire_Points ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS REGARDING THIS PRODUCT SHOULD BE SENT TO: SSDFireTeam@noaa.gov