DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0400Z November 11, 2017
SMOKE: Louisiana... Numerous seasonal fires were detected across portions of south central Louisiana resulting in many individual thin density smoke plumes which spread mainly to the south and southwest. Some of the plumes merged to form a somewhat larger patch of smoke over far south central Louisiana. Arizona... At least a half dozen fires were noted across portions of Arizona with individual smoke plumes of primarily thin density moving off to the east and northeast. Pacific Northwest/Southwestern Canada... Once again, scattered seasonal fires were present over western Montana, the northern half of Idaho, and the western portions of Washington and Oregon with a larger concentration of fires detected over British Columbia and Alberta in southwestern Canada. However, very little smoke was visible in satellite imagery due to cloudiness in the region. DUST: Alaska... An area of blowing glacial silt was seen in the afternoon and evening at the mouth of the Copper River and wrapping south and then southeast into an area of low pressure in the far northeast Gulf of Alaska. An area of light re-suspended volcanic ash from the Katmai volcano was seen moving to the southeast across Kodiak Island and into the Gulf of Alaska. JS/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