DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 2000Z July 30, 2016

SMOKE:
Western and South Central US:
A large expanse of thin density smoke attributed especially to the
larger wildfires over coastal central California (north of Monterey),
western Nevada, southwestern Idaho, western Wyoming, northern Utah, and
northern Colorado was spread over a significant portion of the Western US
from California, Oregon, northern Nevada, and southern Idaho. The smoke
then extended to the east and southeast over the central Rockies to the
Central and Southern Plains. Moderately dense smoke from the fire north
of Monterey was present over central California. Moderately dense from
the fire in western Wyoming extended towards western Nebraska.

Canada:
A very extensive region of thin density smoke associated with ongoing
wildfires over northern Saskatchewan and the Northwest Territories covered
a large expanse from northwestern to central and south central Canada.

Western Canada:
A very long swath of aerosol possibly composed of primarily thin density
smoke extended from the north Pacific well south of the Aleutians to
southern British Columbia and Vancouver Island. This possible smoke may
have origins to fires in Russia.

DUST:
Caribbean/Western Atlantic:
Once again, possible light density Saharan dust was observed in satellite
imagery moving west across Puerto Rico, Hispaniola, Cuba, a portion
of the Caribbean, the Bahamas, and  reaching southern Florida and the
eastern and south central Gulf of Mexico along with the Yucatan Peninsula.

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

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.