DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0005Z September 9, 2021
SMOKE: Lower 48 of the U.S/Far Eastern Pacific off the U.S. West Coast/Southwestern and Southeastern Canada/Atlantic off the East Coasts of the U.S. and Canada… Very large coverage of smoke primarily due to the ongoing wildfires burning in the western U.S. and southern British Columbia of southwestern Canada continued to be seen today extending from over the far eastern Pacific off the U.S. west coast inland and to the east over virtually all of the western and central U.S. The area of smoke then narrowed as it extended farther to the east and northeast across the Ohio Valley. Areas of thinner density smoke were also seen over and off the coast of the Mid-Atlantic region and the Northeast with additional areas of thin density smoke visible extending well off the U.S. east coast and eastern Canada over the Atlantic. Thicker smoke was noted in satellite imagery covering portions of northern and central California and much of Washington and Oregon with the thicker smoke extending to the east of those areas across the Rockies to the Central Plains. DUST: Caribbean: A thin plume of Saharan dust covers the central and eastern part of the Caribbean Sea. 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) ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS REGARDING THIS PRODUCT SHOULD BE SENT TO: SSDFireTeam@noaa.gov