DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0315Z July 27, 2017
Pacific Northwest/Western Canada eastward over the North Central US and virtually all of the central and Eastern portions of Canada... A large area of primarily thin density smoke covered a good portion of central and southern Canada as well as the northern part of the US from the Pacific Northwest to the western Great Lakes region. This smoke was attributed mainly to wildfire activity over Montana and the northern half of Idaho, the southern part of British Columbia, and the southern portion of the Northwest Territories. Moderately dense to thick smoke extended over portions of Manitoba northwest to northern Saskatchewan. Other areas of moderate to thick smoke were over southern Alberta and British Columbia. Southeast US.... A thin area of remnant smoke extended from the Mid Atlantic southwest towards the Florida Panhandle. DUST: Gulf of Mexico.... Saharan Dust extended from central Florida southwest to the central Gulf of Mexico and from there northwest to coastal Louisiana. 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