Thursday, September 25, 2014

DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 2345Z September 25, 2014

Currently:

SMOKE
Northern Idaho/Central Canada
Wildfires burning in northern/central Idaho and western Montana
are emitting light to moderately dense smoke north across the region
(Montana/Idaho) and into southern sections of southeast British Columbia
and southwest Alberta.  Residual smoke continues to spread across central
Canada with smoke now moving into parts of eastern Manitoba and western
Ontario.

Central/Southern Canada/Mississippi Valley:
Numerous fires across the region are producing mostly light smoke and
combining with residual smoke from burnings the day before.  Smoke can
be currently seen across Missouri, Arkansas, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas,
and Louisiana.

DUST:
Central California:
An area of blowing dust/sand can be seen moving south across the central
San Joaquin Valley with the southern tip of the blowing dust/sand reaching
the southern sections of the valley.

J Kibler

Earlier Today:

SMOKE
Northwest US to Central Canada:
Areas of thin to moderately dense smoke could be seen this morning over
portions of southwest and northern Idaho, southern Alberta, southern and
northeast Saskatchewan, and western Manitoba. Numerous fires the last
few days in north Idaho and the King Fire in California are believed to
be the origin of most of this remnant smoke.

Central/South Central US:
Numerous agricultural burns over the last 1-2 days has caused an
area of thin smoke that stretches from east Texas north to Kansas and
northeastward to Illinois/Missouri. Most of the burning has taken place
along the Lower Mississippi River Valley.

Southeast Canada:
An unknown aerosol was seen over southern parts of Ontario and Quebec.

Sheffler

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

 


Unless otherwise indicated:
  • Areas of smoke are analyzed using GOES-EAST and GOES-WEST Visible satellite imagery.
  • Only a general description of areas of smoke or significant smoke plumes will be analyzed.
  • A quantitative assessment of the density/amount of particulate or the vertical distribution is not included.
  • Widespread cloudiness may prevent the detection of smoke even from significant fires.