DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1630Z October 4, 2020
SMOKE: Western United States including most of California/Northern Rockies/Pacific Northwest/ Eastern Pacific Ocean/Intermountain West/Southern Canada... Widespread fire complex activity continues to be observed in parts of Northern/East-Central California and a large region of moderate to heavy density smoke was observed from the large fire complexes. Moderate to heavy density smoke was observed over most of Northern California as well as over most of the San Joaquin Valley and southward over Central California. Moderate to heavy density smoke was also observed both well to the Southwest of the California coast several hundred miles southwest offshore over the Eastern Pacific Ocean and as well as to the Northeast/East of the region over parts of the Inter Mountain West and Northern Rockies including Western Nevada, Southern Oregon, Eastern Washington State, North Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming. The smoke is progressing around a strong high pressure system present over the Western United States. Central Rockies/Southern Plains including Texas/Northern and Western Gulf of Mexico/Eastern Mexico/Southeastern United States/Mid-Atlantic States... A large region of light to moderate density smoke likely due to smoke transport from Central Rockies wildfire activity in Eastern Utah, Northern Colorado, and Southern Wyoming was observed over Eastern Colorado into the Southern Plains including parts of Oklahoma and most of Texas. Light to moderate density smoke was also observed well to the south and east of the primary wildfire activity zones over coastal Eastern Mexico, the Western/Northern Gulf of Mexico as well as over parts of the Southeast United States and over parts of the Western Mid Atlantic region. Heavy density smoke was also observed offshore over the Northwestern Gulf of Mexico in this morning’s latest GOES Visible satellite imagery. Central Atlantic Ocean... A small region of medium density smoke and a large region of light density smoke was observed this morning over part of the Central Atlantic Ocean in the latest GOES Visible satellite imagery. Sambucci 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