DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1700Z September 28, 2020
SMOKE:
California/Nevada/Arizona/New Mexico/Northwestern Mexico/Baja
California...
Major wildfires throughout central and northern California continue to
produce thick smoke, even as the sun rose this morning. Thick smoke
blanketed northeastern California and areas to the west over the
Pacific Ocean. Thick smoke was also observed emanating from the Creek
and SQF Complex fires further south (central California) and moving
west. Moderate density smoke was observed further out into the Pacific,
while light density smoke had moved as far north as Victoria Island and
as far south as the southern Mexican Coast (offshore of Guerrero).
Ohio Valley/Great Lakes into the North Atlantic...
Remnant light density smoke from western wildfires was seen traveling
northeastward over the Great Lakes, then east across southern Quebec,
the Maritime Provinces, and the open North Atlantic Ocean. This will
continue to mover around the northern periphery of a large upper-level
ridge over the eastern and central Atlantic.
Western Gulf of Mexico…
An area of remnant smoke, presumably from the western CONUS wildfire
activity, along with additional smoke from gas flaring in the Bay of
Campeche and minor fire activity in eastern Mexico, was present over
much of the western Gulf of Mexico. The smoke was slowly moving north
into a cold front, which was then pushing the smoke back south as well as
dragging the northern fringes of the smoke area up to the east-northeast.
DUST:
Tropical and Subtropical eastern Atlantic…
An area of thick Saharan dust was observed emerging off the Mauirtanian
and Senegalese coasts and extending westward and west-northwestward
to about (28N, 50W). This dust was slowly moving off toward the west
and west-northwest.
Hosley
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