DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1730Z September 4, 2013
Eastern US: An area of aerosol could be seen off the coast of the Southeast US this morning. It is believed to be a mix of smoke, pollution, and haze. The densest part of the area of aerosol was the more likely area that contained mostly smoke that may have come from western US wildfires on central US agricultural burning. South Central US to South Central Canada and Great Lakes Region: A large area of thin to moderately dense remnant smoke stretched from central Texas and east New Mexico northward across the central US to the Dakotas, northeast Montana, southern Saskatchewan, and southwest Manitoba as well as northeast to the Great Lakes. This smoke is likely from both the Rim Fire in California and from agricultural burning in the central and southern US during the last few days. Western US: A plume of mostly thin smoke stretched southwest to northeast from off southern California to Oregon and Idaho. This smoke is entirely from the Rim Fire. Northwest Canada: Thin smoke covered portions of the Northwest Territories, northeast British Columbia, northern Alberta, and northern/central Saskatchewan. Several fires in northern Canada had produced this smoke. Sheffler 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