DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0130Z August 28, 2016
SMOKE: California: An area of light density remnant smoke originating from fires in southern California was seen across California slowly moving east with optically thicker smoke in Central Valley banked along the Sierra Nevada mountains. Several fires are still emitting light to moderate density smoke in the southern Sierra Nevada mountains and southwestern California coast. Pacific Northwest/Intermountain West: Two significant light to heavy density smoke plumes were seen traveling east in east-central Oregon and west-central Idaho. Multiple light to moderate density smoke plumes were seen in-between cloud cover traveling east in the northern portions of the Intermountain West. 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. -Cronin 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