DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1830Z July 28, 2017
SMOKE: South-Central Canada and North-Central US... Wildfires predominantly located in southern British Columbia and the southern portion of the Northwest Territories continue to burn this morning producing light density smoke that blankets much of south-central Canada and north-central US. The light density smoke stretches as far as eastern Hudson Bay, and as far south in the US to the northern borders of Kansas and Missouri. There are several areas of medium dense smoke located across the Alberta/Saskatchewan border. The fire located in northern Washington state is producing moderately dense smoke that extends into portions of southeastern British Columbia. Northern California and Oregon.... Fires over northern California and southwestern Oregon were producing locally moderately dense to thick smoke which moved off to the northeast. A larger surrounding thin density region of smoke stretched from northern California across much of Oregon. Alaska... A large fire in east central Alaska was emitting light density smoke which spread in a predominantly westerly direction. DUST: Gulf of Mexico.... A swath of persistent Saharan Dust remains visible predominantly off of the US Gulf coast from Louisiana to the Florida panhandle and from there extending southward into the Central Gulf of Mexico. -Boll 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