DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0230Z October 9, 2020
SMOKE:
United States, Northern Mexico, Southern Canada, Western Atlantic and
Eastern Pacific…
More widespread smoke attributed primarily to the ongoing larger wildfires
still burning in the Western U.S. was visible during the afternoon across
a good portion of the U.S. as well as far southwestern and far south
central Canada, roughly the northern two-thirds of Mexico, and a portion
of the far eastern Pacific, and the far western Atlantic off the coast of
the Carolinas and Georgia. Moderately dense smoke with embedded thicker
patches of smoke stretched from California and the Pacific Northwest
eastward to the Northern and Central Plains and the Upper and Middle
Mississippi Valley region. Thicker smoke was seen over northeastern Utah,
and from northern Colorado and southern Wyoming to parts of Nebraska,
Kansas, and Iowa. This area of thicker smoke was from the wildfires
in northeastern Utah and in north central Colorado and south central
Wyoming. The wildfires in California were responsible for thick smoke
covering roughly the northern two-thirds of the state, western Nevada,
a good portion of central and southern Oregon, and central and southern
Idaho. The Great Lakes region, the Northeast, a portion of the Southeast,
and western Washington and northwestern Oregon were somewhat smoke free.
JS
Earlier This Morning...
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