DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0200Z September 6, 2017
SMOKE: Continental US/Southeastern Canada/Southern British Columbia... A huge area of mostly moderate to dense smoke continues to be seen across much of the CONUS and southwestern Canada from the Pacific Coast to New England and the Maritime Provinces with a southward dip in the midsection of the US. The smoke covers most of the Pacific Northwest and southern British Columbia eastward across Idaho and western Montana and then turns southeastward across Wyoming and Colorado into the central and southern Great Plains. The region of smoke continues east through the Ozarks then east-northeast through the Ohio and Tennessee River Valleys into the mid Atlantic and New England. The source of this plume is the ongoing wildfire activity throughout the western CONUS and southern British Columbia. Central Canada/northern Plains/Great Lakes... A cluster of wildfires in east-central Saskatchewan were producing a plume of light to moderate smoke that extended to the south-southeast across the Manitoba/Saskatchewan border into the eastern Dakotas, Iowa and Missouri. The smoke then curls to the northeast into the central Great Lakes. Pacific Ocean/Northern British Columbia... An area of mostly light density smoke with some embedded patches of moderate smoke was seen over a large swath of the eastern Pacific along and east of 135W from about 25N all the way into southeastern Alaska and northern British Columbia. 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