DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0100Z October 10, 2023
SMOKE: Western Canada… Ongoing active wildfire activity across northern Alberta continues to produce light and moderate to perhaps heavy smoke. The smoke is moving off toward the north-northwest into southern Northwest Territory where an upper jet starts dragging the smoke eastward. Hudson Bay to the Upper Midwest… A thin ribbon of smoke was seen extending from the Canadian Archipelago counter-clockwise around a storm system over Ontario and Quebec over Manitoba, far western Ontario, and into Minnesota and the Dakotas. Mississippi Valley/Southeastern CONUS… Widespread agricultural burning from the Missouri Bootheel into Louisiana, along with more scattered agricultural burning from central Kansas to the Carolinas, was observed producing mainly light smoke with a couple producing moderate density smoke. Smoke was generally moving counter-clockwise around the same, sprawling system over eastern Canada, with smoke along the Gulf Coast moving northeastward. Pacific Northwest… Fire activity across western Montana and Idaho was producing light to moderate density smoke. The smoke was moving generally northeastward. Black Hills… A wildfire was observed producing thick smoke on the southwestern edge of the Black Hills. The smoke was moving mainly east-southeastward with a portion moving east-northeastward. 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