DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1715Z October 20, 2020
SMOKE:
California, Southwestern/Eastern U.S., and Northern Mexico.
Wild fires in Northern New Mexico, as well as northern and central
California
continue to emit smoke resulting in moderate-to-heavy concentrations
near their sources whereas a larger plume consisting of light smoke but
also including pockets of moderate-density smoke that extends over most
of California, southern and western Nevada, central/southern Arizona,
southern New Mexico, western Texas, and northern Mexico. Another light
density area of smoke which originated primarily from the Cameron Peak
Fire in northern Colorado over the weekend has been pushed eastward by
strong winds and now travels along the northern edge of the Adirondack
Mountains in eastern Tennessee and expands northeast to cover most
of Virginia/Maryland, and eastern West Virginia. Further visibility of
this smoke as well as other parts of the area of interest are concealed
by cloud cover. Plumes of high density smoke can be seen flowing east
from the northern Colorado wild fires but are immediately concealed by
cloud cover.
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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