DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1800Z September 19, 2017
SMOKE: Eastern US/Southeastern Canada... Several patches of thin density smoke leftover from the persistent wildfire activity of recent weeks over portions of central Canada and the northwestern US were visible this morning over a sliver of southern Quebec and northern New York and offshore of Nova Scotia and Newfoundland. Another swath of leftover thin density smoke was seen extending from near Lake Erie southward over the central Appalachians and across the Carolinas to off the Southeast coast. Cloudiness in the region though did likely interfere with additional smoke detection. Canada... A very long area of remnant thin density smoke was present over the southern part of the Northwest Territories, the northern portions of Alberta and Saskatchewan, and the central parts of Manitoba, Ontario, and Quebec. This smoke was likely from wildfire activity over central Canada with some possible contribution from recent wildfires over the northwestern part of the US. JS 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