DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1632Z September 20, 2021
SMOKE: Southwestern/Central U.S., and Mexico/Pacific... An area of mostly light density smoke primarily due to the ongoing wildfires burning in the western U.S. continued to be seen today extending from over the far eastern Pacific off the U.S. west coast inland and to the east over of the western and central U.S., and northern Mexico. An area of moderate to heavy density smoke covered most of central and southern California. Eastern U.S. and Canada/Atlantic... A detached plume left over from the western U.S. wildfires was detected over the Northeastern U.S. and extended over parts of the northwestern Atlantic, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland. The plume was of thin density except for two large moderate density pockets eastern Canada. Unfortunately, cloud cover over much of the Lower 48 and Canada precluded further smoke analysis this morning. DUST: Atlantic... A thin plume of Saharan dust was detected on the edge of the eastern 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