DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0200Z November 1, 2020
SMOKE:
California/Far Eastern Pacific off the California coast…
Moderate to thick density smoke continues to emanate from the Creek
Fire, Rattlesnake Fire, and SQF Complex in the forests of east central
California. The thicker smoke generally spread to the west from these
fires impacting a good portion of central California. Thinner density
smoke mainly attributed to these fires with smaller smoke contribution
from fires in northwestern California and agricultural fires in the
Sacramento Valley covered virtually all of California with the exception
of far southern and far northeastern California. Thinner density smoke
also spread offshore of California to the west over the nearby far
eastern Pacific.
Northwestern, North Central, and Central U.S./Southwestern and South
Central Canada…
Numerous fires which were believed to be mainly seasonal/prescribed fire
activity were detected over northern Idaho, western Montana, northeastern
Washington, and the southern and central portions of British Columbia
and Alberta in western Canada. A few smoke plumes were seen during
the day though cloud cover did interfere with some additional smoke
detection in satellite imagery. Farther to the east, a leftover large
area of thin density smoke possibly mixed with smoke blowing dust was
visible stretching from portions of Alberta and Saskatchewan southward
over the North Central and Central U.S. The smoke is likely from the
concentrated seasonal/prescribed burning occurring in the Northwestern
U.S. and Southwestern Canada while blowing dust would be from sources
in the Dakotas and far south central Canada where strong northwesterly
winds are present.
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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