DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1640Z August 13, 2021
SMOKE: United States and Southern Canada…. Fire activity over much of the Pacific Northwest United States and British Columbia was producing a very large area of smoke that extended over most of the United States and southern Canada and into portions of the northwest Atlantic Ocean. Within this large area of smoke, several areas of moderate to high density smoke were seen with those being a small area just south of the New England coast and then further west a much larger area over the central and northern Rockies and the entire west coast of the United States to southern British Columbia. The highest density smoke was from the northern Rockies west to the Pacific northwest and then south to northern California. DUST: Caribbean Sea…. An area of Saharan dust was seen over portions of the central Caribbean Sea extending south towards coastal areas of northern Columbia and northwest Venezuela. Hanna 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