DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1800Z Sunday, September 7, 2020
SMOKE:
Western U.S. into Central U.S…
Heavy remnant smoke from yesterday’s fires throughout California
were moving east across Nevada, Utah, Colorado, and then moving SE into
northern Texas and Oklahoma. The same California fires are still emitting
moderate to extremely heavy smoke plumes that continue to move towards
the east.
An area of extremely thick smoke was observed over Oregon before turning
east over Idaho, Wyoming and into the central plains including Kansas,
Colorado and northern Texas. A combination of new smoke due to a number
of very large fire complexes and stagnant remnant smoke from previous
days was to blame. Moderate to light density smoke also related to
the widespread fire activity also extended off of the Pacific coast
of California, over much of the western U.S. and across the northern
and central plains prior to engulfing the Great Lakes region and
Mississippi Valley. Additional scattered fire activity throughout
Colorado, Washington, Oregon and Idaho added to the increased volume of
smoke encompassing much of the United States.
Rodriguez
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