DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1700Z August 9, 2019
SMOKE:
Northwestern US and Western Canada/British Columbia Province...
The Northwestern US especially across portions of Northern/Eastern
Washington, Northern Oregon, and in Northern Idaho were large complex
fire activity was observed. The smoke plumes from fire activity in Idaho
and Washington was not visible due to cloud cover from a storm system
in the region, but in Northern Oregon the smoke plume was visible with
light density smoke further away from the fire and moderate to heavy
density smoke in the vicinity of the fire progressing northwestward
this morning. A large complex fire burning in Northern British Columbia
Province with light, moderate, and heavy density smoke observed from
the fire progressing westward through the mountains towards the Pacific
coastline this morning.
Northern and Central US/Southern Canada/Ohio River Valley...
A large region of light to moderate density smoke was observed over
portions of the Northern and Central Plains over North/South Dakota
as well as Nebraska,Kansas, Northeastern Colorado,and the Upper/Lower
Midwest. Light density smoke was also observed over the Northern Great
Lakes as well as in portions of North and South Central/South Eastern
Canada. A region of heavy density smoke was observed over portions of the
Ohio River Valley over Northern Missouri, Southern Illinois/Indiana/Ohio,
Western West Virginia, and over Northern Kentucky. The smoke in this
region is present likely from smoke transport with upper level low present
over Hudson Bay Canada from Northwestern US large complex fire activity
that has progressed the smoke south and eastward. The large region of
smoke is progressing southeastward this morning.
Alaska and Northwestern Canada...
The latest GOES Visible satellite imagery observed a large region of
light density smoke over most of Northern and Central Alaska likely
from smoke transport from Russian wildfire activity in Siberia and
Northeastern Russia. A large region of light to moderate density smoke
was also observed over most of the Yukon, Northwest Territories, and
over portions of Northern British Columbia Province. The large smoke
region is progressing south and east this morning.
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SAMBUCCI
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)
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