DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1630Z October 16, 2020
SMOKE:
California….
A layer of moderate to high density smoke from wildfire activity
throughout the state of California was seen across California and
extending west-southwestward offshore into the Pacific Ocean.
Arizona…
Fire activity across the state of Arizona was producing smoke that was
mainly extending southwest across the central and southwest portions of
the state. Some was just exiting Arizona and entering far southeastern
California and into Mexico across northwestern Sonora and extreme
northeast Baja California.
Eastern CONUS…
A layer of thin remnant smoke was observed across an area extending from
southeastern Kansas southeast into the ArkLaMiss then northeast across the
Appalachians and into the eastern Great Lakes. The parent fire activity
for this smoke is likely the fire activity along the Front Range.
DUST:
Tropical Atlantic Ocean and Southwest Atlantic Ocean….
Sarahan dust was observed emerging off the African coast today, extending
to west of the Cabo Verde islands.
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