DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1730Z September 13, 2020
SMOKE:
Central and Western U.S./Pacific Ocean...
Ongoing large wildfire complexes in California, Oregon, and Washington
continue to produce a very large plume that covers much of the central
and western U.S. and the eastern Pacific Ocean. A light to moderate
density plume extends from the Dakotas to the Great Lakes. Another
light to moderate density plume covers Oklahoma northeastward to the
Ohio Valley. The densest plumes over the western U.S. extend from the
Northern Rockies to the Pacific Northwest, then southeastward through
Oregon and California, then eastward over Arizona, New Mexico, and the
Texas Panhandle. A plume ranging from light to heavy density is
entrained into an upper level low pressure system over the northeastern
Pacific Ocean. A light to moderate density plume extends southwest off
the southern coast of California southwestward into the tropical
Pacific east of Hawaii.
DUST:
Atlantic...
A thin Saharan dust plume covers a large part of the 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