DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0200Z September 5, 2017
SMOKE: Continental US/Southern Canada... An expansive area of mostly moderate to dense smoke is seen spanning most of the northern and central US and southern Canada from the Pacific Coast to New England. The smoke covers most of the northern two thirds of California and out into the Pacific northward across Oregon and Washington into southern British Columbia. From there, the smoke crosses Idaho, Montana and Wyoming and dips into the central Plains reaching as far south as Oklahoma and the Texas Panhandle. It continues east through the mid Mississippi Valley, Great Lakes and the Ohio and Tennessee Valleys into New York and northern New England. A narrow swath of light smoke extends across North Carolina to the Outer Banks. Central Canada... A cluster of wildfires in northern Saskatchewan were producing a plume of light to moderate smoke that extended to the southeast across southwest Manitoba into northwestern Minnesota. Pacific Ocean... An area of moderate to dense smoke from the California and Oregon wildfires extends off the coast to the west of the fires to about 126W. A more expansive area of light to possibly moderate smoke was seen extending further down the California coast. Another batch of older remnant smoke was seen well offshore between 130W and 140W extending from near 25N all the way to the southeast Alaska coast. 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