DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0300Z October 13, 2017
SMOKE: Area from California to the Dakotas... The wildfires over northwestern California continued to emit moderately dense to thick smoke which moved mainly to the south during the day across portions of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay region and out over the eastern Pacific off the California coast. A region of thinner density smoke primarily from the California fires covered much of California with a stripe of it also extending well to the northeast across southern Nevada, Utah, northwestern Colorado, and Wyoming to the Dakotas. Arkansas/Louisiana... What are believed to be primarily seasonal agricultural fires were detected scattered over eastern Arkansas and portions of Louisiana. Numerous thin density smoke plumes were visible with these fires with some of them merging to form somewhat larger patches of smoke over the region. JS Earlier This Morning... DUST: Mojave Desert... Blowing dust was observed throughout the Mojave Desert from south-central Nevada to south-central California. Much of the dust was blowing from the north-northeast to the south-southwest. Windward Islands/Atlantic Saharan dust was seen extending from the central tropical Atlantic Ocean west towards the windward Islands. This region of dust appeared to be moving off toward the west. 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