DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0200Z August 10, 2021
SMOKE: Canada and the United States... A large region of thick density smoke attributed from the Dixie wildfire complex and several other large wildfire complexes in Northern California was observed over Northern California as well as to the west offshore over the Pacific Ocean. Thick density smoke was seen progressing northward, westward, and eastward from the large complex fire activity and has resulted in broad region of thick density smoke being observed over Southern Oregon, Northern/Central Nevada, Southern Idaho, Northern/Central Utah, Northern Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, and over a large region of the North Central and Central U.S. Wildfire activity was also observed over parts of central, south central, and southwestern Canada, along with the northwestern U.S. Smoke continues to be observed covering a broad region extending from the Pacific Northwest into and across almost all of Southern/Central Canada, where the fire activity in east-central Manitoba and western Ontario adds to the region of smoke. Light to moderate density smoke covers the NW US, much of Canada and the high plains of the US as well as over the Midwestern US, Mississippi valley, Great Lakes and continues east across the Ohio Valley, southeastern US, and mid-Atlantic region where it exited into the western Atlantic. Medium density smoke covered most of the northern U.S. and southern Canada. A very large amount of thick density smoke was also observed from northwestern U.S. and extended to the east over the central U.S. and southern Canada in this evening’s satellite imagery. Eastern Canada/Western Atlantic Ocean... Large regions of light to moderate density smoke likely attributed from Western U.S. wildfire activity was observed over parts of Eastern Canada and the Western Atlantic in this evening’s GOES visible satellite imagery. Southern Mexico/Bay of Campeche... Light to moderate density smoke was observed over parts of Southern Veracruz and parts of Tabasco. Light to moderate density smoke was also observed from offshore drilling platforms over parts of the Bay of Campeche. DUST: Puerto Rico/Eastern and Southeastern Caribbean/Central and Eastern Atlantic... A thin layer of Saharan dust was visible over the central and eastern portions of the Caribbean Sea and continued to move to the west earlier today. Saharan dust was observed as well over parts of the Eastern and Central Tropical Atlantic in this evening’s GOES visible satellite imagery. Sambucci 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