Friday, August 26, 2016

DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1800Z August 26, 2016

SMOKE:
Western US:
Several small pockets of thin to moderately dense remnant smoke exist
across the western United States with fires in Idaho, western Montana,
northwest Wyoming, Oregon, and Washington being responsible for much of
the remnant smoke. Ongoing wildfires in central and southern California
had also produced plumes of smoke still drifting over central California
and southern Nevada as well.

North Central US/South Central Canada:
Areas of thin remnant smoke could be seen this morning drifting eastward
across portions of the Dakotas, Minnesota, northwest Wisconsin, western
Lake Superior, southern Manitoba, and southwest Ontario. This smoke is
from wildfires in the western US.

Mid-Atlantic Region to the Canadian Maritimes:
An large area of thin remnant smoke stretches from the North
Carolina/Virginia border northeastward covering the southern coast
of New England and Cape Cod and further northeast to southern Nova
Scotia. Additional thin remnant smoke exists a bit further east of Nova
Scotia. A small area of moderately dense smoke is analyzed just off the
mouth of the Chesapeake Bay.

DUST:
Caribbean:
African dust moving westward across the tropical Atlantic/eastern
Caribbean Sea can be seen in satellite imagery stretching from the
Leeward Islands to Jamaica, mostly south of Hispaniola.

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

 


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.