DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1700Z August 30, 2021
SMOKE:
Western U.S./Central Rocky Mountains and Great Plains…
Numerous wildfires in a region stretching from southern British Columbia
to northern California were observed producing plumes of thick smoke
emanating eastward as far as western Wyoming before gradually thinning
out to light-density smoke as far east as Illinois.
Manitoba/Northern Ontario/Hudson Bay…
A cluster of wildfires in west-central Manitoba was observed to be
producing thick smoke extending southeast across the province, with
thinner smoke observed over the remainder of Manitoba, as well as
southwestern Hudson Bay area and much of northwestern Ontario.
DUST:
Central Caribbean...
An area of Saharan dust was observed over the Caribbean Sea extending
from Puerto Rico to eastern Cuba and southward to just north of the
South American coast.
MTC
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