DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0200Z September 23, 2020
SMOKE:
United States, Southern Canada, Northeastern Mexico, western Gulf of
Mexico and North Atlantic Ocean….
The wildfires affecting the western United States continue to produce
a large area of smoke that covers most of the United States, southern
Canada, northeastern Mexico, the western Gulf of Mexico and then extending
across the North Atlantic Ocean towards the United Kingdom. Within this
extremely large area of smoke, there were several areas of high density
smoke. The first area was extending from Newfoundland and then curving
to southwest through New England, the northern Mid Atlantic and into
the upper Midwest. Further to the west, another area of high density
smoke was extending from western Montana southwest through Idaho, western
Oregon towards northern Nevada. A number of high density smoke plumes
were also seen near closer to the ongoing wildfires over California.
Hanna
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