DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0310z August 27, 2020
SMOKE:
Western and Central U.S./Mexico...
Smoke from wildfires most intense in California continues to cover
much of the West in addition to a large part of the Midwest. Thick
smoke dominates over central/northern California and southern Oregon,
while moderate smoke covers western Nevada, central Idaho, southeastern
Montana, northern Wyoming and Nebraska, the Dakotas, southern Minnesota,
northern Iowa, southern Wisconsin, northern Illinois, central-northern
Indiana, and southwestern Ohio. Lighter density smoke extends outwards
from the moderate concentration areas listed above, including Utah,
Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, northwestern Mexico and Baja California.
The smoke remains largely stagnant across the western U.S. In contrast,
the smoke is seen traveling eastward over the central U.S. and eastern
U.S. A thin plume extends from the Mid-Atlantic offshore to near
Bermuda and then turns northeast and ends near southeastern
Newfoundland.
DUST:
Atlantic
A large thin plume of Saharan dust persists over the central and
eastern tropical and subtropical 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