DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0200z October 2, 2020
SMOKE: United States, Southwest Canada, Southeast Canada and North Atlantic Ocean…. A large area of light to moderate density smoke from the ongoing wildfires over California, Wyoming and Colorado was seen on over much of the United States and extended from the western United States through the Central and Southern Plains through the Southeastern United States and extending northeast through eastern New England, southeast Canada and offshore to the North Atlantic Ocean just south of Greenland. An area of moderate density smoke was seen within this area over portions of the Southeastern United States and Southern Plains from Georgia extending west into Texas and Oklahoma. Further to the west, an area of high density smoke was seen from the ongoing wildfires over California and extending north along coastal California and Oregon and then northeast into southern Washington and northern Idaho. DUST: Tropical Atlantic Ocean, Southwest Atlantic Ocean, northeastern Caribbean Sea…. An area of Saharan dust was extending from the eastern Tropical Atlantic Ocean west through the Tropical Atlantic and into the southwest North Atlantic Ocean and the northeastern Caribbean Islands and northeast Caribbean Sea. 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