DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0100Z September 5, 2021
SMOKE:
Northwestern/Northern/Northeastern U.S./Lower Mississippi/Quebec
A large area of heavy density smoke is covering northern California,
Oregon, Washington, northern Nevada, Idaho, central-southern Montana, and
northern Wyoming, with additional moderate smoke extending outward and
further east over Nebraska, Kansas, northern Iowa, and Wisconsin. Another
large area consisting of light-to-moderate smoke is seen over New England
and the northwestern Atlantic, in addition to eastern Quebec, northwestern
Newfoundland and the Labrador Sea. Those two major smoke plumes were
moving eastward. A pocket of stagnant smoke was also observed along the
lower Mississippi valley where multiple agricultural fires were burning
resulting in light-to-moderate smoke over much of Arkansas and Louisiana,
as well as the northern Gulf of Mexico.
DUST:
Texas/Gulf of Mexico/Caribbean Region...
Two distinct areas of Saharan dust could be observed in the afternoon
imagery, the first one being located over the central-western Gulf of
Mexico and southeastern Texas, and the second area covering the eastern
Caribbean region and moving westward ahead of hurricane Larry.
WS
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