DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1530Z September 10, 2012
Northern US: Large wildfires in California, Oregon, Washington and Idaho continue to emit moderately dense to dense smoke which is moving to the northeast. The dense smoke is confined close to the point sources but the moderately dense smoke and lighter density smoke extends through most of the northwest US into Canada. This smoke originates from central Oregon, moves through Idaho (where it merges with moderately dense smoke from fires there), continues through central Montana, into southern Canada. Once in Canada, the line of smoke extends along the Saskatchewan/Manitoba border while moving to the east. To the east, the smoke becomes lighter as it stretches back into the US via Michigan/Wisconsin and extends to the northern Illinois/Indiana border. -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