DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1530Z September 29, 2021
SMOKE:
Eastern United States, Central United States, Southwestern United States
and Central Canada...
Fire activity over the western United States continues to produce a
very large area of smoke that extends across much of the eastern United
States, central United States, central Canada and into the southwestern
United States. Within this area several areas of moderate to high density
smoke were seen with those being over portions of south central Canada
extending into the Upper Midwest of the United States and also over the
southwestern United States from New Mexico extending west and southwest
through southern Arizona, northwest Mexico, the Baja and offshore into the
eastern Pacific Ocean. Another area of moderate to high density smoke was
seen closer to fire activity over portions of south central California.
DUST:
Eastern Atlantic Ocean….
A large area of Saharan dust was seen over the far eastern Atlantic
Ocean extending west to just east of the Caribbean Islands and to the
east and north of Hurricane Sam.
Hanna
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