DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0230Z October 10, 2020
SMOKE:
United States, Northern Mexico, Southern Canada, Western Atlantic...
Widespread smoke from the ongoing wildfires in the Western U.S. was
seen over much of the U.S. during the day with the exception of the
Southeastern U.S. Smoke of thin density also was located over far southern
and southeastern Canada as well as the Atlantic off the Northeast and
Middle Atlantic coast. Additional thin density smoke was also present over
the northern part of Mexico. Areas of moderate density smoke could be
seen stretching from California and Oregon eastward to the Northern and
Central Plains and in a relatively narrow band up over the Great Lakes
region. Thicker density smoke was visible extending to the east of the
large wildfires burning in northern Colorado and southern Wyoming and to
the northeast of the wildfires burning in northeastern Utah and along
the Arizona-New Mexico border. A larger mass of thicker density smoke
attributed mainly to the wildfires in California covered much of central
and northern California, most of Oregon, northern and western Nevada,
and portions of Idaho with fires in Idaho and southeastern Washington
also contributing to the relatively thicker smoke in that region which
extended into western Montana.
North Dakota/Minnesota/Saskatchewan/Manitoba…
Seasonal/agricultural type fires scattered over northern and eastern North
Dakota, northwestern Minnesota and the southern portions of Saskatchewan
and Manitoba in south central Canada produced numerous primarily thin
density smoke plumes which spread to the southeast during the afternoon.
DUST:
The only Saharan dust visible earlier in the day was over the eastern
Atlantic off the western coast of Africa.
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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