DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1600Z August 24 2015
SMOKE Western/Central US and Western Canada: An enormous amount of light to heavy density smoke is seen heading eastward from the wildfires that continue to burn in California. The light density smoke is seen moving from the Pacific Northwest and through Northern Great Basin, all of Rockies. Western portions of the Northern Plains, Central and Southern Plains, majority of the Middle Mississippi Valley and Western Mississippi Valley. The moderate density smoke extends from northern California through Oregon, Washington, southern British Columbia, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, western Nebraska, Kansas, southern Missouri, and northern Arkansas. The heavier portions of the smoke are seen in northern California heading north into Oregon, central California heading east into Nevada, and in central and northern Idaho spreading out into Montana. Smoke from the Rough fire in the central Sierra Nevada of California was spreading northeast into Nevada and merging with the smoke from the fires further north. The areas of moderately dense and dense smoke were mainly over the Sierra and east into west central Nevada. Central/Eastern Canada: A large area of remnant smoke originating from the wildfires in the western US is visible over portions of eastern Canada. It covered southeastern Hudson bay and east through central Quebec, southern Newfoundland and Labrador heading into the open Atlantic. A large portion of this mass was moderate density smoke. Kemal 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