DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0100Z December 6, 2017
SMOKE: Southern California... The aggregation of intense wildfires throughout Ventura and Los Angeles Counties in California was producing a smoke plume that was extending west-southwest over the northern Channel Islands and into the Pacific Ocean for a few hundred miles. A few other small smoke plumes in far southwestern San Bernardino County were seen moving off to the southwest. Southeastern CONUS... A couple of smoke plumes were visible through scattered to broken cloud cover across Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina. These smoke plumes were seen moving off to the north-northeast ahead of a passing cold front. Northern Arizona... A burn in Kaibab National Forest, just north of the Grand Canyon, was seen emitting smoke this afternoon. The smoke was traveling toward the west along the Colorado River Oregon/Northern and Central California... A couple of fires throughout Oregon and California were observed emitting smoke this afternoon. These smoke plumes were moving off to the west-northwest, save for the fire in Yosemite National Park. The smoke from that fire was moving to the southwest across the San Joaquin Valley. Western Canada... A handful of fires in British Columbia and central Alberta were seen producing smoke plumes. These smoke plumes were moving off to the southeast. -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