DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0100Z October 8, 2017
SMOKE: Arizona... An area of light smoke from the 33 Springs fire in central Arizona was moving to the northeast this evening. California... Light to moderately dense smoke from the Lion fire in the southern Sierras was seen extending to the east and reaching into southern Nevada. The smoke from earlier today and yesterday was also seen dropping to the south across southeast California and into the far northern Gulf of California. Light to moderately dense smoke from a fire in far northwest Siskiyou county near the Oregon border was seen moving to the east. DUST: Oregon... The dust noted earlier today coming from Summer Lake has continued through the afternoon and evening. The dust was seen reaching from Summer Lake to far southeast Oregon along the Nevada border by sunset. Another plume of blowing dust was observed coming from Mud Lake over southeast Oregon and extending to the east southeast. Idaho... A narrow plume of blowing dust was seen this afternoon and evening originating near Pagari in south central Idaho and moving to the east across the Craters of the Moon National Monument. A separate plume of blowing dust was seen north of Idaho Falls and moving to the northeast. 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