DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0200Z August 30, 2020
SMOKE:
Much of the CONUS with the Exception of the far Northwestern U.S.,
the Great Lakes Region, and the Gulf Coast Region…
A huge mass of smoke attributed primarily to the ongoing larger wildfires
burning in California but with also some contribution from wildfires
in Oregon, Idaho, and western Montana could be seen during the day over
much of the U.S. with the exception of northwestern Oregon and western
Washington, the Great Lakes Region, and the immediate Gulf Coast from
southern Louisiana to southern Georgia and Florida. Smoke earlier in
the morning was also visible extending offshore of the East Coast over
the Atlantic. Much of the smoke east of the Northern and Central Plains
is thin density. Moderate to thick density smoke was seen over much
of central and northern California and eastern Oregon and extending to
the east and northeast of those regions across the northern and central
Rockies to the Northern and Central Plains. The thickest smoke resided
over northern and central California, the eastern half of Oregon,
northwestern Nevada, central and southern Idaho, and southwestern
Montana. Thicker smoke also spread to the west and southwest off the
coast of northern and central California over the Pacific.
Earlier This Morning...
SAHARAN DUST:
Atlantic...
Saharan Dust that has been moving west across the tropical and subtropical
Atlantic has had portions of the layer move across much of the Caribbean
and even towards the Yucatan Peninsula. The thickest Saharan Dust was
still over the eastern and central tropical Atlantic and the eastern
subtropical Atlantic.
Hosley
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