DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1720Z October 8, 2020

SMOKE:
United States, Northern Mexico, Western Atlantic and Eastern Pacific….
The wildfires over the western United States continue to produce a
tremendous area of smoke that extends over much of the United States,
northern Mexico, the Western Pacific Ocean, and into the western Atlantic
Ocean.  Although most of the smoke was light density, there were some
areas of moderate to high density smoke within the region. Wildfires from
California and Oregon continue to produce Medium density smoke covering
most of California, Oregon, and Idaho, northern and western Nevada,
and southeastern Washington. A band of high density smoke is also seen
stretching from western Washington into western Idaho. Moderate density
smoke from the wildfires along the Wyoming/Colorado boarder is observed
over the northern plains of the U.S. with a small band of high density
smoke over central Nebraska. A Medium density band of smoke can be seen
over the Missouri/Idaho boarder. Light density smoke covers much of
Northern Mexico, most of the western and central U.S. and has a large
band that moves down through the south-central U.S. expanding out 1400
miles into the Atlantic Ocean off the coasts of North and South Carolina,
and Georgia. Much of the smoke observed in the south yesterday cannot
be observed due to Hurricane Delta.

DUST:
Tropical Atlantic Ocean….
An area of Saharan Dust was seen over the Tropical Atlantic Ocean and
extending west towards the eastern Caribbean Islands.

Eglin


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

Unless otherwise indicated:

Areas of smoke are analyzed using GOES-EAST and GOES-WEST Visible satellite imagery.

Only a general description of areas of smoke or significant smoke plumes will be analyzed.

A quantitative assessment of the density/amount of particulate or the vertical distribution is not included.

Widespread cloudiness may prevent the detection of smoke even from significant fires.