DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0100Z August 28, 2014
North American East Coast: An area of aerosols can be seen off the east coast of North America stretching from Labrador southwest across Maine to northern Massachusetts. This area likely contains remnant smoke from wildfires in northwest Canada. California/Oregon: Wildfires in northern California and west-central Oregon are emitting moderately dense to dense smoke which is fanning out to the east. -Salemi Earlier: SMOKE California/Oregon: Smoke from the wildfires in northern California and western Oregon was seen swirling over northwest California and western Oregon. Moderate to dense smoke was associated with the fire complex in northwest California. Northern Canada: The exact extent of remnant smoke from the fires over Northwest Territories around Great Slave Lake was difficult to discern due to extensive cloud cover over northern Canada this morning. However, an area of light to moderate smoke was seen in the vicinity of Great Slave Lake, rotating around a large cyclone overhead. Another area of light smoke, mixed with clouds, was seen over northern Saskatchewan and northern Manitoba into southeast Northwest Territories and Nunavut into western Hudson Bay. Canadian Maritimes: Very light remnant smoke was detected over Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and spilling over into the surrounding Atlantic and Gulf of St Lawrence . 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