DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1700Z August 25, 2017
SMOKE: Northern tier of US... A swath of light smoke was seen extending across much of the northern US from northern California northeastward across Oregon into central Idaho, much of Montana and the Dakotas. It then fans out a bit and drops down to the Ohio River and covers the Great Lakes and clips northern New York. Embedded within this broad area of light smoke are smaller patches of medium density smoke that are near the source fires in California, Oregon, central Idaho and western Montana. The smoke also extends into the Pacific and drops down the coast to an area west of San Francisco. The smoke from the West Coast to the northern Plains is predominantly from the fires in the western US. East of the Plains it may be mixing with remnant smoke from the large and long burning wildfires in Canada. There is also a small patch of very light remnant smoke off of New Jersey to near Cape Cod. Canada.... Remnant smoke from the persistent wildfires of the past couple of weeks continues to swirl around a large portion of Canada. Light smoke covers an area that includes much of Saskatchewan, southeast Northwest Territories, eastern Nunavut, all of Manitoba, all of Ontario, western Quebec and nearly all of Hudson Bay. A large area of moderately dense smoke was over western Hudson Bay, eastern Manitoba and western Ontario. DUST: Caribbean... An area of Saharan dust was seen again this morning across much of the central and eastern Caribbean. 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