DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1645Z August 17, 2021
SMOKE:
Eastern Canada/Western Atlantic Ocean...
Smoke transport from widespread wildfire activity over parts of the
Western and Northwestern U.S. as well as fire activity in Southern
Canada including Southern Ontario has resulted in large regions of light
to moderate density smoke. Smoke was observed over a large region of
Eastern Canada including most of Quebec, western Greenland and parts of
the Western Atlantic Ocean.
North and Central U.S./Southern Central Canada...
Smoke transport from widespread wildfire activity over parts of the
Western and Northwestern U.S. has resulted in a broad region of moderate
to thick density smoke observed over most of the Northern and Central
U.S. Smoke from wildfire activity in Southern British Columbia and the
Western U.S. has resulted in thick density smoke being observed over
a large region of South Central and south eastern Canada.
Western and Northwestern U.S./Northern and Central Rockies/Pacific
Ocean...
Thick density smoke from the Dixie wildfire complex as well as from other
large complex fires in Northern California, West Central Oregon, Southern
Washington, and the Northwestern U.S. has resulted in a broad region of
thick density smoke. Thick smoke was observed over Northern and Central
California, as well as over portions of Washington, Oregon, Nevada,
the Northern and Central Rockies, and parts of the Southwest. Light to
moderate density smoke was observed over most of the Western U.S. as
well as offshore from California over the Pacific.
DUST:
Eastern Caribbean/Central and Eastern Tropical Atlantic...
A large dense region of Saharan dust was observed over the Eastern
and Central Tropical Atlantic with light density Saharan dust over the
Eastern Caribbean.
Eglin
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)
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SSDFireTeam@noaa.gov