DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0130Z October 6, 2020
SMOKE:
U.S./Mexico/Gulf of Mexico/Eastern Pacific…
Ongoing wildfire activity across central and northern California was
observed continuing to produce thick smoke this evening. The area of
smoke extends from the western periphery of Tropical Storm Maria in the
eastern Pacific to the Great Lakes. The thickest smoke blankets northern
and central California, much of Nevada, southern Oregon, southern Idaho,
and northwestern Utah. Thicker remnant smoke was also observed over the
northern Plains. Some of the remnant smoke over the southeastern CONUS
and the Gulf of Mexico originated from the western CONUS wildfires.
Northern Plains/Great Lakes…
The Mullen Fire in south-central Wyoming was continuing to emit thick
smoke this afternoon and evening. The smoke was moving east-southeast,
east, and east-northeast, covering eastern Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska,
northern Missouri, Iowa, and Wisconsin.
Southeastern CONUS/Mississippi Valley…
Presumably agricultural burning was observed across much of the
southeastern CONUS and the Mississippi Valley. The greatest concentrations
of agricultural burning were eastern Arkansas into Louisiana, and from
central Georgia into southeastern Louisiana. Smoke from these fires was
moving mainly west-southwest or southwest.
Remnant smoke, with contributions from the wildfire activity across
the western CONUS, the Front Range, and the burning activity across the
southeastern CONUS, was observed extending from the Bay of Campeche and
western Gulf of Mexico to off the Carolina coast.
DUST:
Saharan dust was observed over the eastern tropical Atlantic, moving
west or west-northwest.
Hosley
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