DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0210Z August 19, 2020
SMOKE:
Western and South Central United States along with the northwestern Gulf
of Mexico, Northern Mexico, and the Eastern Pacific…
A very large area of smoke covered portions of the western Gulf of Mexico,
the South Central United States and all of the Western United States.
Within this large area of smoke, several areas of moderate to high density
smoke was noted with the highest density of smoke over portions of coastal
Central California and extending inland into central California and also
near the ongoing fires over Colorado. Moderate density smoke covered
portions of Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona and Utah and also extending
from portions of northern California northeast towards the central and
northern Rockies.
Alaska…
An area of light density smoke from remnant fires over Russia extended
from portions of northern Alaska southwest through western Alaska.
DUST:
Tropical Atlantic...
Saharan Dust was covering a large area of the Tropical Atlantic Ocean
and extended west into portions of the Southwest Atlantic Ocean southwest
into the central and western Caribbean Sea.
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