DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0200Z September 19, 2012
Pacific Northwest to western Gulf Coast: Large wildfires continue to burn in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Wyoming and Montana creating a broad area of new and remnant smoke. The smoke extends from the Pacific Northwest across western Montana and much of Wyoming, eastern Utah and Colorado. There are extensive areas of moderate to dense smoke in the vicinity of the fires. There is also a patch of light density smoke over the Pacific off the Washington coast. There is then a bit of a break and then another area of light density remnant smoke over eastern Texas, Louisiana and into northern Mississippi and Alabama. Canada: Numerous fires in central and northeast British Columbia and extreme northwest Alberta are producing smoke which is mainly extending to the east and southeast in elongated plumes across central British Columbia and from northeast British Columbia into central Alberta. Ruminski 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