DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0140Z October 5, 2020
SMOKE: Western, Central and Southeastern United States and the Gulf of Mexico…. The wildfires over California, Wyoming and Colorado continue to produce a large area of smoke that covers the western United States and extends through the central and northern Rockies into the central and southeastern United States and the western and central Gulf of Mexico. There were several areas of higher density smoke in this region with an area of moderate density smoke seen along the central Gulf coast and extending south through the western Gulf of Mexico. Another area of moderate density smoke was also seen extending from southern Idaho, southern Oregon and northern Nevada into central and northern California and then extending offshore central California into the northeast Pacific Ocean. High density smoke was seen near the larger active wildfires over north central Colorado, southern Wyoming, northern Utah, central Montana and also over central and northern California. 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