DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0200Z August 18, 2014
Canada/Northwestern U.S: An expansive area of light to moderate density smoke remains across much of Canada, from British Columbia to western Quebec and from Great Slave Lake southward to the US border. A broad area of moderate smoke is from central British Columbia across the central Prairie provinces to western Hudson Bay. Dense smoke was seen from the fires south of Great Slave Lake extending to the southeast across northern northern Saskatchewan into northwest Manitoba with another area of dense smoke over central and southern Alberta. On the eastern extent, the smoke drops south into southeast Ontario and into western New York. The smoke from the Canadian fires has spilled into the Northwest US where it merged with smoke from the fires in northern California. The smoke extended from off the Oregon and northern California coasts and across northern California, most of Oregon and Washington, through central Idaho and across the northern tier f Montana. Moderate smoke was seen over northern Montana and northwest California into adjoining Oregon. An area of dense smoke was near the fire complexes in California. Midwest: A patch of remnant light smoke was over eastern Iowa and central Wisconsin. Northern Canada: A streak of light smoke was detected from northwest Nunavut extending to the northwest over the open Arctic ocean. DUST: A broad area of Saharan dust is currently over much of the southern and central Gulf of Mexico and the western Caribbean, reaching inland over South Florida to a line over Lake Okeechobee and the Texas coastline. Ruminski 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