DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1730Z August 10, 2017
SMOKE: Wildfires continue to burn in three distinct regions/areas: 1) Eastern Alaska, Yukon Territory, and western Northwest Territories. Remnant light density smoke blankets the aforementioned areas, with embedded plumes of moderate density smoke located closer to the fires. 2) Southeastern Northwest Territories and parts of Saskatchewan and Manitoba. An expansive area of light smoke stretches over those regions plus farther north into Nunavut and farther east into Ontario. 3) British Columbia, southwestern Alberta, and the U.S. Pacific Northwest. This area of remnant smoke is the largest and heaviest. Thin smoke covers nearly all of British Columbia and moves southeast over the Pacific Northwest, the Intermountain West, the central plains, the midwest and the Great Lakes Region. Moderate smoke was observed over British Columbia, Washington, northern Oregon, northern Idaho, and western Montana, while dense smoke remained confined to central British Columbia. Ramirez 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