DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0226Z August 18, 2020
SMOKE:
Western United States….Fires over the western United States were
producing a large area of light to moderate density smoke that was
extending from portions of the western Gulf of Mexico west through the
Southern Plains, the Southwest and Central Rockies States west through
California. Localized heavy density smoke was confined to near the fire
locations and larger areas of moderate density smoke covered portions
of southern New Mexico, southern Arizona and northern Mexico and also
over California and extending northeast into Idaho.
Alaska and the northern Yukon….An area of light density smoke, from
fires over Russia, was extending from the northern Yukon west through
central Alaska.
DUST:
Tropical Atlantic...
A large area of Saharan Dust extended from the Tropical Atlantic west
into the eastern and central Caribbean and portions of the southwest
Atlantic Ocean.
Hanna
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