DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0254Z August 6, 2019
SMOKE: Alaska/Canada... The complex of fires across Alaska and Northwestern Canada are still burning but at a much slower rate. A large area of remnant smoke from these fires continued moving generally eastward and extended across Alaska, Canada, and the Great Lakes. Cloud cover across much of Alaska and portions of central Canada may obscure smoke plumes across these areas. Between breaks in the cloud cover, light and medium density smoke was observed. Multiple plumes of heavy density smoke were visible moving east from fires on the northern pacific coast of British Columbia. Pacific Northwest... A region of heavy density smoke was observed generally moving eastward from fires in Washington, Idaho and western Montana. A majority of the heaviest density smoke remained in the northern portions of eastern Washington, Idaho and western Montana. Light density smoke transported from these fires and additional fire activity in Canada was visible dipping into the Dakotas and Great Lakes regions. Nevada/Utah/Southern Idaho.... Several fires grouped together south of Elko, Nevada along with several other fires in Northeastern Nevada and Northwestern Utah were producing moderate to heavy smoke which was moving eastward across northern Utah, southern Idaho, southwestern Wyoming, and northwestern Colorado. Levine 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/data/land/fire/currenthms.jpg GIS: ftp://satpsanone.nesdis.noaa.gov/FIRE/HMS/GIS/ KML: http://www.ospo.noaa.gov/data/land/fire/fire.kml (fire) http://www.ospo.noaa.gov/data/land/fire/smoke.kml (smoke) ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS REGARDING THIS PRODUCT SHOULD BE SENT TO: SSDFireTeam@noaa.gov