DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0200Z August 26, 2016
SMOKE: Pacific Northwest/North Central US/Far South Central Canada: Remnant thin to moderately dense patches of smoke originating from wildfires in the northern portions of the Intermountain West, Oregon, and Washington is seen across parts of Idaho/Oregon/Washington/Montana/Wyoming and out across the Northern Plains/Great Lakes region also entering far southern Canada. Numerous wildfires in the Pacific Northwest continue to emit light to heavy density smoke. The fire in the Olympic National park was producing light to heavy density smoke to the southwest. Fires in Oregon, Idaho, and Montana are fanning smoke to the south and east while fires in northwest Wyoming are emitting smoke which is traveling to the east. Southwest US: Thin to moderately dense residual smoke covers a portion of southern California, far southern Nevada, western Arizona and northwest Mexico stretching in different directions away from the Cedar Fire in south California. This residual smoke is obscured by cloud cover over the Four Corner states which prevented the ability to determine the eastward extent of this area of residual smoke. Multiple light to heavy density smoke plumes were seen along the southwestern coast of California and in the southern Sierra Nevada mountains with smoke mostly fanning out to the east. DUST: Midwest: An area of aerosol that is thought to be elevated dust stretches from northeast Oklahoma/southeast Kansas to Illinois and northern Indiana this afternoon/evening in GOES-E imagery. This dust may be from the southwest US. -Cronin/Sheffler 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