DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0345Z December 5, 2017
SMOKE: San Joaquin Valley... A handful of fires throughout the San Joaquin Valley were seen producing smoke this afternoon. These smoke plumes were moving generally from north to south, with a more south-southeasterly push in the southern portion of the valley. South Texas... A fire in southern Texas was seen emitting smoke for much of the afternoon. The smoke was drawn north on southerly winds ahead of a cold front to the north. Southeastern CONUS/Southern Ohio... A couple of smoke plumes from Georgia into Ohio and Virginia were seen moving toward the northwest within the warm sector of the cyclone affecting eastern North America. Cloud cover over much of the Southeastern CONUS obscured any further analysis of smoke. Eastern Saskatchewan... A lone smoke plume was visible over east-central Saskatchewan. The smoke was moving off toward the southeast. Southern California... A wildfire has erupted in southern California near Santa Paula. This wildfire ignited after sunset, but is mentioned as the fire has spread fairly quickly since 0200Z and antecedent conditions are favorable for ignition and spread as a Red Flag Warning is in place for southern California. As such, there is likely at least some smoke with the ignition of this fire. DUST: From this morning: Colorado... A small area of light blowing dust was seen in southeast Colorado east-southeast of Pueblo. This area of dust was moving to the east-southeast south of the Arkansas river. This afternoon: Colorado... In addition to the area of blowing dust observed this morning, a thin layer of dust was observed moving south across eastern Colorado this afternoon. The source of this dust is unknown, but could be from northeastern Colorado or southeastern Wyoming. 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