DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1600Z August 24, 2012
Northwest US into Northern Plains and southern Canada: Smoke from wildfires in northern California, Oregon, and Idaho is spreading east and northeast stretching from northern California and southern Oregon eastward across much of Idaho and Wyoming, southern Montana, the Dakotas, Minnesota and Iowa and into southern Saskatchewan and Manitoba and southwest Ontario. The majority of the smoke is light in density with moderately dense pockets around the fires in California and Oregon, a separate areas over Montana, the Dakotas/Minnesota border and northern Iowa. A dense area of smoke is moving northeast from Montana into North Dakota and southern Saskatchewan. Canada: A small area of light density smoke is detected through dense cloud cover over northern Hudson Bay. The area of smoke may be larger but detection is limited due to dense cloud cover. -Salemi 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