DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0245Z August 28, 2015
SMOKE Pacific Northwest/Central US/Southern Canada: Large wildfires in the Pacific Northwest continue to produce moderately dense to very dense smoke that is primarily observed in northwest California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, north Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Illinois as well as throughout the southern Canadian Provinces that border the northwest and north central US States. Thin smoke from these fires extends northeastward to southern Hudson Bay and southward through the entire central US to southern Texas. UNKNOWN AEROSOL Southeast US An unknown aerosol with some contributions from smoke from the Pacific Northwest fires was seen over the Southeast US from southeast Virginia extending southwest to the central Gulf Coast. Hanna 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