DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1730Z August 22, 2012
US: Smoke producing wildfires in northern California, Oregon, and Idaho are responsible for a broad area of thin density remnant smoke that extends over much of the Pacific Northwest and north central US, and south central Canada. Two other areas of remnant thin density smoke, also with western origins, were visible over eastern Texas/Oklahoma and south of Lake Michigan over Illinois and Indiana. Canada: A cluster of wildfires have been burning for several days near the tri-point of British Columbia, Alberta, and Northwest Territories, south of the Great Slave Lake. Detached smoke has drifted southeast over northern Alberta and much of Saskatchewan and Manitoba and continues south into the US. Ramirez THIS TEXT PRODUCT IS PRIMARILY INTENDED TO DESCRIBE SIGNIFICANT AREAS 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.osdpd.noaa.gov/ml/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