DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1700Z July 17, 2014
SMOKE: Western and Central U.S. and Canada: Wildfires across Washington, Oregon and the Northwest Territories in northern Canada are producing a large area of moderate to dense smoke currently near source with residual smoke spreading across a large section of central/eastern Canada and most of northern/central US. In Oregon and Washington State, wildfires are producing dense smoke moving east across those states and into Idaho. Residual smoke from these wildfires is seen moving east into southeast British Columbia, southern Alberta, and into Montana, Wyoming, the Dakotas and Nebraska. This smoke is moderate in density. Lighter smoke is heading as far south as the southern Rockies, into the Central Plain and into the Ohio and northern/central Mississippi Valley. Heavy smoke from the fires in northern Canada is moving southeast across a large area of Central Canada with lighter smoke east of the central region and also moving into the Great Lakes Region. The two areas of smoke combine in the Great Lakes region although most smoke is from the Washington/Oregon wildfires as the smoke from northern Canada fires is from 3-4 days ago. J Kibler 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.ospo.noaa.gov/Products/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