DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0130Z October 27, 2017
SMOKE: Arizona/New Mexico/Texas... Fires throughout Arizona and New Mexico were observed emitting moderate to dense smoke plumes. These fires were contributing significant smoke plumes across eastern Arizona and central New Mexico, with a remnant smoke feature over northern and central Texas. These features were seen moving off towards the east or east-southeast. Gulf Coast and the Southeast... Numerous fires producing light density smoke plumes were seen from southern Texas to the Mississippi Valley to South Carolina and Florida. Many of the smoke plumes were moving off to the northeast, with the main exception being those in Florida, which were moving to the south or southwest. British Columbia/Pacific Northwest... Numerous fires throughout British Columbia, Washington, and Oregon were seen producing light to moderately dense smoke. In British Columbia, the smoke plumes were moving to the southeast. Throughout Washington and Oregon, the smoke plumes were generally moving off toward the west. Northern Baja California... A moderate density smoke plume was observed emanating from a fire in the northwest part of Baja California. Another fire to the south of the aforementioned fire was also producing a light density smoke plume extending east-southeast over the northern Gulf of California. DUST: Northern Chihuahua... Blowing dust was seen blowing off a couple of dry riverbeds throughout northern Chihuahua approaching the western Texas panhandle. 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