DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0315Z August 7, 2017
SMOKE: Pacific Northwest to New England....A large area of smoke from the fires that continue over portions of the Northern Rockies and southern British Columbia extend from New England west through the Midwest, the Central and Northern Plains, the Central and Northern Rockies to the Pacific Northwest. Within this area a moderate to high density area of smoke extended from the Upper Midwest northwest to British Columbia. Central and Southern Canada....The combination of fires over British Columbia and fires over northern Manitoba, northern Saskatchewan and the southern Northwest Territories was producing an area of smoke extending from northern Quebec west through western Ontario, Manitoba, southern Saskatchewan, southern Alberta to British Columbia. Moderate to high density smoke extended over portions of western Ontario and eastern Manitoba. 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 into the Bay Campeche. 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