DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0200Z September 5, 2012
Northern California/Southern Oregon: Large wildfires in N California are producing dense smoke in N Central California with moderately dense smoke spreading over most parts of N California and S Oregon. Lighter smoke spreads as far north as central Oregon combining with some light smoke from fires burning in N Central Oregon. Light smoke also spreads into NW Nevada. Idaho/Montana/Wyoming/N Plains/N Mississippi Valley/Great Lakes region/Ontario/Quebec: Wildfires burning across Idaho and some in Wyoming are producing very thick smoke spreading west into Montana/Wyoming. Residual dense smoke from these fire are pushing across a large section of the Central Plains (North and South Dakota/N Nebraska), the Upper Mississippi Valley (Minnesota/Ohio) and the Great Lakes region (Michigan/Wisconsin) Lighter smoke with some pockets of moderately dense has moved north into S and C Ontario and into W Central Quebec. 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