DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0145Z September 13, 2015
SMOKE: Western US/Southwest Canada: Wildfires burning across central/northern California, northern Washington, northern Idaho and northwest Wyoming are producing area of moderately dense to dense smoke west to west northwest across the region. Remnant smoke from mostly the fires in central California is moving across the northern/central Great Basin/southwest US, into the Rockies and into southern Canada and getting closer to the Plains. The heaviest of this smoke is seen across northern California and Nevada, western/central Oregon and southwest Idaho. A long narrow strip of moderately dense smoke can be stretching from southwest Utah southeast into east central Arizona. Cloud cover across a large area of California and southern Oregon is blocking the full view of smoke. J Kibler 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