DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0200Z October 4, 2020
SMOKE:
Western United States, Central and Southern Plains, Southeast United
States and Southwest Canada….
The wildfires ongoing over southern Wyoming, north central Colorado
and California continue to produce a large area of smoke that extends
through most of the western United States through the Central and Southern
Plains and into the southeastern United States. Within this area several
areas of moderate to high density smoke were seen. The first along the
western Gulf Coast states from Alabama west through eastern Texas and
then extending south into the western Gulf of Mexico. Further to the
west, an area of moderate density smoke extended from just offshore the
northern Baja into and through central and northern California, central
Oregon, southern Washington and western Idaho. Highest density smoke
was seen from offshore southern California through inland central and
northern California into southern Oregon.
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