DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1700Z August 24, 2013
Western US all the way to the Mid Atlantic region and out over the Atlantic: A huge area of thin to moderately dense smoke stretches eastward from California all the way into the Atlantic. The smoke covers all of the central plains and extends as far south as central Texas as the middle Mississippi River Valley states before stretching farther north over Tennessee and the Carolinas. Additionally, on the northern side, the remnant smoke covers the Great Lakes and continues moving north into Ontario. The smoke originated from several active wildfires in California, Oregon, and Idaho, including the Rim fire in central CA. Canada: Mainly thin density smoke from fires in Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and Ontario with some contribution from the Western US fires is seen moving to the east and northeast across a most of south central and central Canada. Smoke reaches as far east as Quebec. Ramirez 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 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