DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0130Z September 2, 2017
SMOKE: Continental US... Numerous wildfires throughout the Northwestern US, California and southern British Columbia continue to burn and are collectively responsible for an enormous light density smoke plume over the western U.S., the north central U.S., the Mississippi River Valley, the Great Lakes Region, northern Pennsylvania and most of New York. Mush of the western coast of the US is patched in moderately dense smoke that also stretches off northern California and southwestern Oregon into the eastern Atlantic. Patches of moderate smoke is also visible over the Northern Rockies. Moderate to heavily dense smoke was present over north-central US and the Mississippi Valley. Canada... Light density remnant smoke was visible over southern Canada, Nunavut, and Hudson Bay stretching from eastern British Columbia to southeastern Ontario this evening. Heavily dense smoke stretched from central Manitoba, southeastern Nunavut, Hudson Bay and western Ontario. Dust: An area of dust was visible in the eastern Caribbean Sea with a portion stretching over the Dominican Republic and Turks and Caicos Islands. BOLL 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