DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1615Z August 22, 2021
SMOKE:
U.S./Canada/Atlantic/Pacific off the West Coast...
Wildfires in the western U.S. and southwestern Canada continued to burn
overnight and today and were responsible for a large area of smoke seen
across significant portions of the U.S. and Canada as well as off the
US West Coast. Dense smoke primarily from the wildfires in the western
U.S. stretched eastward across sections from central/northern California
into most of Nevada into southeast Idaho, most of Utah and across most of
Wyoming and northeast Colorado and beginning to stretch into far western
South Dakota. The most dense area of smoke extends across northern Utah
and into western and central sections of Wyoming. Lighter smoke extends
across most of the Pacific Northwest and eastward across northern and
central Plains and reaching into Wisconsin and well into Iowa. Smoke
stretches northward into southern Alberta and British Columbia and central
Saskatchewan, and central and southern Manitoba and Quebec. Smoke also
stretches off the California coast and thickness difficult to confirm
due to met clouds. Another area of dense smoke stretches from the
Mid-Atlantic/Ohio Valley northward across the eastern section of the
Great Lakes and across southeast Quebec and into sections of Ontario
and far eastern Northeast Canada.
Alaska/Canada/Western U.S. ...
Thin density smoke was seen spreading to the east and across the northern
Territories and to the east coast of Canada. Smoke is most likely from
fires burning in Siberia.
Kibler
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