DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0350Z August 26, 2020
SMOKE:
Much of the CONUS, south-central Canada, and northern Mexico...
A large smoke plume resulting from wildfires across the West in the
past couple of weeks continues to blanket a considerable portion of the
CONUS, along with portions of south-central Canada, far southeastern
Canada, and northern Mexico. The thickest smoke resides in California’s
Central Valley, emanating from the August Complex and SQF Complex fires,
and in a ribbon extending from northern California across the
Intermountain
West, northern Great Plains, southern prairie provinces, Midwest, Great
Lakes, Ohio Valley, Mid-Atlantic, Northeast, and the St. Lawrence River
Valley. A southwestward extension of this layer is seen from across the
Front Range, Four Corners, and northwestern Mexico. Smoke from fires in
Colorado is contributing a small amount of smoke as well. Smoke from the
northern Great Plains into the northeastern CONUS is moving east-southeast
to east on a jet, which is what brought the lofted smoke into those
areas originally. The rest of the smoke across the western half of
North America
will continue to move clockwise around the ridge in place over the
Rockies.
DUST:
Atlantic...
A large plume of Saharan dust over much of the central and eastern
tropical Atlantic.
Konon
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