DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0250Z September 22, 2021
SMOKE:
California/Southwestern and South-Central U.S./Mexico/Pacific...
An area of mostly light density smoke primarily due to the ongoing
wildfires in the western U.S. was detected extending from the far
eastern Pacific off the U.S. West Coast and Baja California extending
inland to the east over the Desert Southwest, northern Mexico, and to
Texas/Oklahoma where it intersects cloud cover. An area of moderate
to heavy density smoke covered a large part of California and extends
to the southwest from the San Francisco area into the open Pacific
for several hundred miles.
Northeastern U.S./Canada/Atlantic...
A detached thin density plume left over from the western U.S.
wildfires was detected over the Northeast and extended over the
northwestern Atlantic, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, and
a large part of Quebec. A moderate density plume was found along the
eastern Quebec coast, and most of Newfoundland/Nova Scotia.
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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