DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0300Z October 25, 2016
SMOKE: Middle and Lower Mississippi Valley: Numerous seasonal agricultural fires were analyzed from southeastern Missouri across eastern Arkansas and northwestern Mississippi resulting in many individual mainly thin density smoke plumes which moved primarily to the south and southwest with some of the plumes congealing into somewhat larger patches of smoke. Northwestern US: Quite a few fires were seen in between breaks in the clouds especially over northern Idaho, far western Washington and far western Oregon, and British Columbia though little to no smoke was visible in satellite imagery due to cloud interference. GLACIAL FLOUR: Southern Alaska/Gulf of Alaska: Satellite imagery through the day continued to show airborne glacial flour spreading to the south from the Copper River Valley in southeastern Alaska and offshore over the Gulf of Alaska. JS 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