DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0300Z September 27, 2017
SMOKE: California... Mainly thin density smoke from a fire to the east of Los Angeles fanned out and covered a sizable portion of southwestern California as well as offshore. Over northern California, a persistent wildfire produced moderately dense to locally thick smoke which moved to the west and southwest. A larger area of thinner density smoke from this fire extended well to the southwest off the northern and central California coast. Mid-Mississippi Valley... Scattered seasonal agricultural fires mainly over southeastern Missouri and eastern Arkansas produced a number of thin density smoke plumes with a few of them combining to form a larger area of thin density smoke over northeastern Arkansas and southeastern Missouri. DUST: Puerto Rico/Hispaniola... An area of Saharan dust was visible across Puerto Rico and Hispaniola as well as the eastern Caribbean and spots east of there. 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