DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1600Z September 30, 2021
SMOKE:
Eastern United States, Central United States, Southwestern United States
and Central Canada...
A large area of mostly light density smoke, from the fire activity in
the western United States, continues to affect a large area of the United
States and central Canada. Smoke was extending from off the east coast
of the Unite States west and north into the central United States and
central Canada and then extending southwest into the southwestern United
States, northern Mexico and into the eastern Pacific Ocean offshore of
the Baja and southern California. Within this area there were a few
areas of moderate density smoke with those being just offshore the
southeast United States extending west into coastal South Carolina,
over the Southern Plains from western Oklahoma into eastern New Mexico
and also closer to the fire activity over 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 eastern Caribbean Islands.
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