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