DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1615Z September 25, 2020
SMOKE:
Western, Central and Northern United States, Northern Mexico, Western
Gulf of Mexico, North Atlantic...
Smoke from wildfires in western U.S. continues to impact a large swath
of the country. Moderate-to-heavy smoke dominates central California in
the areas around the Creek, SQF, Rattlesnake and Moraine wildfires, with
plumes extending out to the northeast and into south-southeastern Nevada
and western Utah. Additional moderate density residual smoke is found over
northwestern Texas. Lighter density smoke covers most of the western U.S.,
with the exception of Washington, northern Idaho and Montana, southeastern
Utah, southern Colorado, New Mexico, and northeastern Arizona where smoke
has by and large cleared out. The lighter density extends eastward across
the northern U.S. including South Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa, the Great
Lakes region, and further into New England, while also dipping towards
the southern Great Plains over Kansas, Oklahoma, and northern Texas, the
western Gulf of Mexico, and the Gulf of California. A secondary plume
of light-to-moderate residual smoke stretches over the central-north
Atlantic to the west, south and east of Bermuda.
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