DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0330Z July 17, 2017
SMOKE.... Alaska/Canada/Great Lakes Region Wildfires continue to burn in Alaska and western Canada which has caused a large smoke plume to extend over much of Canada, the Pacific Northwest, Upper Midwest and Alaska. Within this smoke plume a large area of moderate to high density smoke from central Saskatchewan west/southwest through southern Alberta to southern British Columbia. Another area of moderate to high density smoke extended from the Upper Midwest north into southern Ontario. Intermountain West: Fires over Nevada are producing a light density smoke plume that extended from southern Montana through northern Utah, southern Idaho towards Nevada. DUST.... Caribbean Sea.... An area of Saharan dust was extending through much of the eastern and central Caribbean Sea north through Puerto Rico. Hanna 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