DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1730z September 14, 2020
SMOKE:
U.S./Southern Canada/Pacific...
Large wildfire complexes in Oregon and California continue to spread
a very large area of smoke across the much of the U.S. and parts of
southern Canada. A thin density plume is found extending from
Newfoundland southwestward to New England, the Ohio/Tennessee Valley,
and Kansas/Oklahoma. A moderate density plume is located over the Great
Lakes, the Upper Mississippi Valley, the Northern Plains, the Northern
Rockies, and a large part of British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan,
Manitoba, and Ontario. Over the southern Rockies, Desert Southwest,
northwestern Mexico, and into the subtropical Pacific extending several
hundred miles offshore, a light to moderate density plume is detected.
Over the northeastern Pacific, a light to moderate density plume is
entrained into a low pressure system. The thickest plume is found
extending from southwestern Manitoba westward to southeastern British
Columbia, and continuing over eastern Washington, western Idaho, most of
Oregon, a large part of California, and northwestern Nevada.
DUST:
Atlantic...
A thin Saharan dust plume covers a large part of the eastern and central
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