DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1740z August 16, 2021
SMOKE:
Numerous wildfires across the western U.S. and southwestern Canada
continue to produce/support a very large plume of smoke across a large
part of the U.S. and Canada. A thin density plume covered the Gulf of
Alaska, most of southern Canada, and the western 2/3rds of the
Continental U.S. Within this thin density plume, moderate density smoke
was found over the Great Basin, most of the Rockies, the Northern Plains,
and a significant portion of southwestern and south-central Canada. The
thickest smoke plumes were detected over interior central and northern
California, northwestern Nevada and southeastern Oregon, the Northern
Rockies, most of North and South Dakota, southern Saskatchewan and
Manitoba, and parts of western Ontario.
Konon
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