DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0000Z July 29, 2017
SMOKE: Canada and North-Central US: Wildfires predominantly located in southern/central British Columbia and the southern portion of the Northwest Territories continue to burn this evening producing moderately dense to dense smoke with lighter smoke from burning during the last few days spreading over 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 British Columbia and 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: Wildfires over northern California and southern Oregon are producing heavy density smoke north into parts of southern Oregon with moderately dense smoke extending well across a large section of central Oregon. Lighter density smoke can be seen from northern California across all of Oregon, southeast/eastern Washington, northern/central Idaho and into western Montana. This smoke combines with smoke from fires burning in western Montana. The smoke extends into southern Canada and east into the western Dakotas. Earlier Today: Alaska: A large fire in east central Alaska was emitting moderately dense to dense 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/Kibler 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