DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0010Z September 21, 2020
SMOKE: Central and Western United States, Central Canada, Northern Mexico… Smoke from the wildfires over the western United States continues to affect a large portion of the United States, Canada, and northern Mexico. The highest density smoke within this area extended from north central Canada south through the Upper Midwest and Northern, Central and Southern Plains of the United States and into northeast Mexico. The smoke over northern U.S. and central Canada was moving to the east towards the Great Lakes and central Quebec. Another area of high density smoke was near the active wildfires over central and northern California and specially along the Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys. Numerous agricultural fires along the Mississippi Valley were emitting light-to-moderate density smoke towards the west adding to the large plume affecting that region. WS 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