DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0045Z August 9, 2021

SMOKE:
Canada/CONUS...
Smoke originating primarily from wildfires across the western U.S. and
central Canada continues to affect a very large area covering the majority
of the Conterminous U.S. and Canada. The heaviest concentration smoke is
seen over central-northern California, central-northern Nevada and Utah,
southern Idaho, Montana, Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri, and Iowa,
in addition to southern Saskatchewan, central-southern Manitoba, western
Ontario and southern Quebec. Areas of moderate smoke extend over New
Mexico, Oklahoma, and the Great Lakes area. Lighter smoke is seen over
nearly the entirety of the remaining states and provinces. The bulk of
the smoke is moving eastward with the large scale atmospheric flow and
in the general direction of the northwestern Atlantic. Additional light
density plumes linked to long-range smoke transport from central Siberia
are observed over northern Alaska and northwestern Canada.


DUST:
Puerto Rico/Eastern and Southeastern Caribbean…
A thin layer of Saharan dust was visible spreading slowly to the west
across the Windward and Leeward Islands and nearing Puerto Rico and the
Virgin Islands.

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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

Unless otherwise indicated:

Areas of smoke are analyzed using GOES-EAST and GOES-WEST Visible satellite imagery.

Only a general description of areas of smoke or significant smoke plumes will be analyzed.

A quantitative assessment of the density/amount of particulate or the vertical distribution is not included.

Widespread cloudiness may prevent the detection of smoke even from significant fires.