DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0400Z November 12, 2017
SMOKE: Similar to yesterday, enough cloudiness across California, the Pacific Northwest, and southwestern Canada prevented smoke detection in satellite imagery. Elsewhere, a few individual thin density smoke plumes were visible moving to the northeast from more than a half dozen fires over portions of Arizona. More seasonal burning in south central Louisiana contributed to quite a few relatively small thin density smoke plumes. DUST: Alaska... The notable area of moderately dense blowing glacial silt was still seen through the day emanating from the mouth of the Copper River in Alaska and moving to the south southwest into the northern Gulf of Alaska extending well over 500km south of the Alaskan coast. Other much more minor swaths of possible blowing glacial silt were visible a bit farther to the east along the Alaskan coast to near the border with the Yukon Territory. 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