DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0145z August 29, 2012
Pacific Northwest/Northern California/Northern Rockies/Northern and Central Plains/Southern Canada. Wildfires burning across parts of N. California, E. Oregon, Idaho, W. Montana and Wyoming are producing a tremendous amount of smoke reaching as far as E Ontario and the Ohio Valley/Tennessee Valley. Very thick smoke extends from the fires in Northern California into S. Oregon and NW Nevada. Another pockets of heavy smoke from the wildfires burning in Idaho extends into W Montana and S Alberta and Saskatchewan. Moderately dense smoke extends into Washington State and a larger section of central Montana. Residual smoke from previous days in the moderately dense range extends from the wildfires as far east as W. Indiana, Manitoba and as far south as Oklahoma and Arkansas. To make things worst, blowing dust/sand across parts of S. Oregon, N. California, W. Nevada are combining with the smoke making aviation conditions even worse. It's somewhat difficult to differentiate smoke and blowing dust/sand in satellite imagery. Eastern North Dakota: Mostly agricultural burns across the eastern section of the state are producing mostly light smoke moving west into the C. North Dakota. J Kibler 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