DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0130Z September 17, 2017
SMOKE: Pacific Coast/British Columbia and Alberta border with the CONUS... Wildfires located throughout northwestern California, western Oregon, northern Washington, and northwestern Montana were observed contributing to a thin to moderately dense smoke layer. This layer stretched from the Alberta/Montana border to just off the coast of central California. Cloud cover blankets much of eastern and central Oregon and Washington, shrouding any smoke that may be present across the region. However, given the observation of wildfires in the area and the observation of smoke in the area around the cloud cover, at least light density smoke is likely present over the region Great Lakes Region and New England... A region of varying density remnant smoke was observed extending eastward from the Great Lakes into the Canadian Maritimes and out over the northern Atlantic Ocean, with a narrow strip extending south into central Kentucky. DUST: North central Atlantic... A layer of Saharan dust was seen to the northeast of Bermuda. This layer was drifting off to the north. Lesser Antilles and points east... A second layer of Saharan dust was observed over the Lesser Antilles extending east towards Tropical Storm Maria. This layer of Saharan dust was seen drifting westward. 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