DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1830Z August 25, 2012
North America: A large area of smoke ranging in density from light to moderately dense covers a large expanse of North America. The smoke is from wildfires in northern British Columbia, Yukon and Northwest Territories in Canada and Washington, Idaho and Montana in the US. The smoke extends from the Northwest Territories/Nunavut border, south along the Alberta Saskatchewan border in the the US. The smoke in the US extends from northern California, north into Oregon/Washington, then east through Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, the Dakotas, Nebraska, Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana then it turns south Kentucky, Tennessee, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama where is covers the northern half of the Gulf of Mexico. -Salemi THIS TEXT PRODUCT IS PRIMARILY INTENDED TO DESCRIBE SIGNIFICANT AREAS OF 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 DEPECTION 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.html KML: http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/FIRE/kml.html ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS REGARDING THIS PRODUCT SHOULD BE SENT TO SSDFireTeam@noaa.gov