DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1650Z August 15, 2019
SMOKE: Western and Central Canada and the northeastern Pacific... A large area of light smoke was observed extending southward from the Arctic across all of Canada west of Hudson Bay and northern Ontario. this region of smoke was being drawn south just off the Pacific coast by a sprawling high and also into a low pressure center south of Alaska. More dense remnant smoke was observed over central British Columbia, central Alberta, southeastern Alberta/southwestern Saskatchewan, and over southern Manitoba. Much of the smoke across Canada was moving east. No smoke was drawn over Alaska due to the issue with GOES-17 that impacted imagery since 0530Z. Northern Arizona/Northwestern Nevada... Light to Moderate smoke was still seen across northern Arizona coming from a couple fires around the Grand Canyon. Some remnant smoke was also noted. Smoke was moving different directions near and around the parent fires. Southeastern CONUS... A couple of fires were observed emitting varying density smoke plumes across Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama, the most dense of which was in and over west-central Alabama. All the smoke was moving off toward the southwest. 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/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