DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0130Z September 20, 2017
SMOKE: Eastern US/Southeastern Canada... An area of light remnant smoke was seen this evening in a broad arc that extended from the St Lawrence Valley north of Maine and worked back into western New York and Lake Ontario then curled southward across western Pennsylvania, West Virginia, western Virginia, central North Carolina and eastern South Carolina and then extended into the Atlantic. Ontario/Quebec... An area of quite light remnant smoke was seen in a stripe across northern Ontario, James Bay and west central Quebec. Northwest Canada... Mostly light remnant smoke from the ongoing fires in Saskatchewan and Alberta was seen in an area extending from northwest Saskatchewan and northern Alberta into southern Northwest Territories and far southeast Yukon Territory. The full extent of the smoke, especially the southern edge, is difficult to discern due to cloud cover. BLOWING DUST: Southwest US... There were several areas of light blowing dust noted this afternoon and evening over the Southwest. One area was over the southern California to the southwest of the Salton Sea. This dust was moving to the east. Another area of light blowing dust was seen over the loose and sandy soils of south central Arizona and this was moving to the northeast toward the Mogollon Rim. Light blowing dust was also noted moving to the northeast from the White Sands area of southern New Mexico. Nebraska/Colorado... An area of light to moderately dense blowing dust was being kicked up by strong and gusty winds over northeast Colorado and the Nebraska Panhandle. The dust was moving quickly to the south and east. 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