DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1630Z August 23, 2017
SMOKE: Northwest US into the Plains and British Columbia into Alberta Canada... Smoke from the continuing wildfires in northern California, western Oregon, Washington, Idaho, western Montana and southern British Columbia covers much of the region. The smoke covers far northern California, most of Oregon, eastern Washington, most of Idaho and most of Montana. There are large patches of moderately dense and dense smoke within this area. Mostly light smoke is seen extending to the southeast across north Wyoming, South Dakota, Nebraska and Kansas into northern Oklahoma. Smoke also covers southeast British Columbia and much of Alberta. Clouds over this area make the full extent of the smoke and the density difficult to assess. Smoke from the fires in northwest California and southwest Oregon is also seen streaming to the southwest off the coast where it extends to the latitude of the middle of the Baja peninsula. Central and Eastern Canada and the Great Lakes States.... A large mass of remnant smoke was seen covering a large portion of the eastern half of Canada except for parts of central Quebec, Newfoundland and Nova Scotia. There was a large area of moderate to dense smoke over Hudson Bay, northern Quebec, northeast Manitoba and western and southern Ontario. Western Atlantic... A mass of light to moderately dense smoke was seen off the mid Atlantic and New England coast and extends to the east northeast to the south of Nova Scotia and the southeast tip of Newfoundland. Ruminski 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