DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0131Z September 15, 2021
SMOKE:
Atlantic...
A long narrow thin to moderate density plume, leftover and detached from
wildfires in the western U.S., was detected from just off the Mid-Atlantic
coast extending east-northeast to just south of Newfoundland to a few
hundred miles southwest of Iceland.
Continental U.S./Canada/Mexico/Pacific...
A very large thin to heavy density plume leftover from western U.S.
wildfires covered most of the East Coast, the Ohio Valley, parts of
the Great Lakes region, sections of the Midwest, the Central/Southern
Plains, and the Desert Southwest, and northwest Mexico. This plume also
extended offshore west of Baja California into the Pacific Ocean and off
the east coast into the Atlantic ocean before darkness precluded further
analysis but earlier today A long narrow thin to moderate density plume,
leftover and detached from wildfires in the western U.S., was detected
from just off the Mid-Atlantic coast extending east-northeast to just
south of Newfoundland to a few hundred miles southwest of Iceland.
Western U.S. ...
A number of ongoing wildfires were present across California, the Pacific
Northwest and parts of the northern Rockies. Most of thee fires were
producing large areas of mostly moderate to heavy density plumes. Two
large wildfire complexes, one in northwestern California and the other
in the San Joaquin Valley, were producing significant light to heavy
density plumes.
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