DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0200Z September 25, 2012
Western and North Central US/Western Canada: While there seemed to be a diminishing amount of new smoke being produced by the Western wildfires this evening there is still plentiful remnant smoke. The thickest smoke, over western Oregon and Washington, extended to the south along and off the California coast and then wrapped eastward into southern California near Santa Barbara. The smoke also extended to the east and northeast across northern Idaho, much of Montana and into the Dakotas and northeast Wyoming. The smoke that was seen earlier in the day over the mid and lower Mississippi Valley was no longer discernible. Thin remnant smoke also spread northward into Canada, covering much of Alberta and southwest Saskatchewan and into the Northwest Territories. Blowing dust: There was an area of blowing dust over southern California this evening in the area just southwest of the Salton Sea and moving to the east into southwest Arizona. 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