DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0315Z August 25, 2014
SMOKE: Western/Central Canada: Large wildfire complexes burning through Northwest Territories surrounding Great Slave Lake continue to produce moderately dense to dense smoke. The smoke associated with these wildfires can be seen drifting across Great Slave Lake and into Nunavut, Hudson Bay, northern Manitoba and northern Saskatchewan. Eastern Canada/Northeastern U.S: An elongated strip of remnant light density smoke is extending from the Labrador Sea, across Labrador/Newfoundland, eastern Quebec, Nova Scotia and into New England. The farthest extent is visible off the coastline of Rhode Island and Cape Cod. Northern California/Southwest Oregon: Several wildfires burning in northern California continue to produce moderately dense to dense smoke which remains close to the wildfires. The smoke is seen over Northern CA, reaching the fringes of northwestern Nevada, and southwestern Oregon. Southern British Columbia/Northwestern U.S: Light to moderately dense smoke is visible moving southward over southern British Columbia, moving into the U.S along the coast of Washington and Oregon. This area of smoke is associated with the multiple wildfires occurring in British Columbia. DUST: Saharan dust is visible along the eastern coast of Florida, spreading over the central part of the state, into eastern/northern portions of the Gulf of Mexico and into the U.S. over the Gulf Coast. Over the U.S, two ribbons of Saharan dust are visible; one area over the southeastern U.S/lower Mississippi valley, extending directly to the north through the U.S. as far as Michigan, and another area from northern Texas, ranging due northeastward through the central Plains and central Mississippi Valley, as far as Minnesota/Wisconsin. Heeps 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