Saturday, August 5, 2017

DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0315Z August 6, 2017

SMOKE:
Pacific Northwest to the Mid Atlantic....A large area of smoke from the
fires that continues over portions of the Northern Rockies and southern
British Columbia extend from the northern Mid Atlantic west through
the Upper Midwest, Northern and Central Plains, Northern Rockies to the
Pacific Northwest.  Within this area, a large area of moderate to very
dense smoke extended from the Pacific Northwest towards portions of the
Northern Plains.

Northern and Central Canada....A large area of smoke from fires over the
southern Northwest Territories, northern Manitoba, northern Saskatchewan
and northern Alberta covered much of central and northern Canada.
An area of moderate density smoke extended from northern Manitoba west
through northern Saskatchewan the southern Northwest Territories towards
west central Alberta.

DUST:
Caribbean...
An area of Saharan dust covered portions of the southwest Atlantic
extending southwest through Florida towards the western Caribbean and
southern Gulf of Mexico.

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

 


Unless otherwise indicated:
  • Areas of smoke are analyzed using GOES-EAST and GOES-WEST Visible satellite imagery.
  • Only a general description of areas of smoke or significant smoke plumes will be analyzed.
  • A quantitative assessment of the density/amount of particulate or the vertical distribution is not included.
  • Widespread cloudiness may prevent the detection of smoke even from significant fires.