DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0315Z August 1, 2014
Central Canada/US: A very large area of moderate to heavy density smoke extended from the Northwest Territories, Nunavut and northern British Columbia south and southeast through Saskatchewan and Manitoba into the Northern Plains lighter density smoke extended from there east through the Northern Mid Atlantic/Northeast and then extending northeast into Quebec. The source region for this smoke are fires over the Northwest Territories and northern British Columbia. Pacific Northwest extending northeast to S Alberta: An area of light to locally moderate density smoke extended from eastern Washington northeast through northern Idaho, northern Montana and further northeast into southern Saskatchewan. Closer to the point source an area of heavy smoke was seen over northern Washington. California: An area of moderate to heavy smoke was lifting north along the west side of the Sierras this evening from fires that were analyzed over the central Sierras. Further north, fires over the Shasta/Siskiyou region were producing moderate to heavy density smoke that was moving north into western portions of Oregon. Hanna 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