DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0124Z September 30, 2021
SMOKE:
Eastern United States, Central United States, Southwestern United States
and Central Canada...
Fire and smoke activity remains relatively same this afternoon/evening
as 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 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.
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