DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1730Z October 5, 2020
SMOKE:
U.S./Mexico/Gulf of Mexico/Eastern Pacific…
The ongoing wildfires burning in the Western U.S. continued to produce
a very large area of smoke which this morning was seen over much of the
Western and Central U.S. with the thinner density smoke also extending
across the Southeastern U.S. Relatively thinner density smoke also was
located over the central and western Gulf of Mexico and across much
of Mexico and over a portion of the eastern Pacific though cloudiness
there interfered with additional information on the smoke extent and
density. Areas of thicker smoke attributed mainly to the wildfires burning
in northern Colorado and southern Wyoming was visible spreading to the
east across portions of the North Central and Central U.S. Thicker smoke
was seen as well near the larger fires in California and extending up over
far southern Oregon and far southern Idaho and across a good portion of
Nevada and into northwestern Utah. More localized thicker smoke plumes
were visible with the wildfires in northeastern Utah and eastern Arizona.
DUST:
The only Saharan dust seen this morning was over the eastern Atlantic.
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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