DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1745Z July 29, 2016
Smoke: Idaho/Wyoming to the Central and South Central US: Widespread thin density smoke mainly attributed to the larger wildfires in northern Colorado, western Wyoming, and southwestern Idaho extended from southern Idaho eastward to Nebraska and Kansas. Moderate density smoke was within this plume over portions of western Nebraska extending west towards eastern Idaho. California: An area of remnant thin to isolated moderate density smoke from the fire near Monterey was visible spreading to the north and east over central California. Some of the moderately dense smoke also fanned out in a southerly direction reaching south central California. The surrounding larger area of thin density smoke reached even farther to the south over far southern California and offshore. Northern Mexico: An area of remnant smoke from fire activity over the northern Rockies was seen over portions of northern Mexico. Canada: A large area of thin to moderately dense smoke from recent wildfire activity around Lake Athabasca in western Canada and the Northwest Territories covered a good portion of Canada extending from Ontario through Manitoba, Saskatchewan , Nunavut, Northwest Territories and towards the Arctic Ocean. DUST: Caribbean/Western Atlantic: Once again, possible very light density Saharan dust was observed in satellite imagery moving west across Puerto Rico, Hispaniola, Cuba, a portion of the Caribbean, the Bahamas, and possibly reaching southern Florida and the eastern Gulf of Mexico. 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