DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1730Z August 11, 2020
SMOKE:
California...
The Red Salmon Complex in Humboldt County of northwester California
remains active with a fairly stagnant batch of moderate to heavy density
smoke seen near the source. Moderate to light density smoke from that
same fire covers much of northern and central California extending to
the southwest over the Pacific as well as to the east and northeast
across southern Oregon, northern Nevada, and southwestern Idaho.
Colorado/Nebraska…
The Pine Gulch Fire continues to burn in southwestern Garfield County in
western Colorado resulting in a broad area of smoke which covers Colorado
with the exception of the southwest quarter of the state, southeastern
Wyoming, much of Nebraska and Kansas, western, central, and southeastern
Oklahoma, and northern Texas. Thicker smoke from this fire extends to the
east and northeast over the northern half of Colorado including Denver,
southeastern Wyoming, southwestern Nebraska, and northwestern Kansas.
Southern Canada/Pacific Northwest/North Central U.S…
A very large area of thin to moderately dense smoke was seen stretching
from the eastern portion of the Gulf of Alaska over Southwestern and
South Central Canada to as far east as central Quebec. The thinner density
smoke had also begun to move onshore over northwestern Washington and had
brushed across the North Central U.S. from North Dakota to the U.P. of
Michigan and Wisconsin. Much of this smoke was believed to be long range
transport from wildfires burning in Siberia though the embedded thicker
smoke seen over central and eastern Ontario and western Quebec was likely
due to wildfire activity in Ontario.
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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