DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0200Z September 1, 2017
SMOKE: Central Canada... Numerous wildfires burning in Saskatchewan and remnant dense smoke from widespread fires in British Columbia continue to produce a large area of moderate to dense smoke. This smoke covers much of eastern Alberta, all of Saskatchewan and Manitoba and western Ontario. California and the Pacific Northwest to the upper Mississippi Valley... Wildfires over Washington, Oregon, Idaho, western Montana and northern California are producing moderate to dense smoke. Plumes of smoke from the fires in California and Oregon are generally moving to the south and extend into the Pacific and across northern California, southeast Oregon and northern Nevada. Smoke from the fires in Washington, Idaho and Montana is moving to the east and southeast and extends across most of eastern Washington, Idaho, Montana and into the northern Plains and upper Mississippi Valley. Central and Southern Plains... Mostly light remnant smoke from the western fires can be seen dropping southward across the central and southern Plains into Texas and wrapping eastward into the northwest Gulf of Mexico. The smoke also extends back to the west across New Mexico and Arizona into southern California. Ruminski/Hosley 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