DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0130Z October 1, 2021
SMOKE:
Eastern United States, Central United States, Southwestern United States,
Western United States, Northwestern Mexico, Pacific Ocean, and South
Central Canada...
Earlier today, a large area of mostly light density smoke, from the fire
activity in the western United States, continued to affect a large area
of the United States and South-Central Canada. Smoke was extending from
off the east coast of the United States west and north into the central
United States and South-Central Canada and then extending southwest
into the Southwestern United States, Northwestern Mexico and over 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. This evening, the KNP complex and the Windy fire
complex both were seen emitting moderate to thick density smoke and as
a result regions of moderate to thick density smoke were observed over
most of the Southern and Central San Joaquin Valley. Fire activity was
also observed in the Inter mountain west over parts of Idaho and Montana,
where moderate thick density smoke was observed over the region. Light,
moderate, and thick density smoke was observed by the Southern California
coast over Santa Barbara, offshore over parts of the Pacific Ocean,
over most of the Gulf of California, and also over Northwestern Mexico
this evening.
South Central Canada including Southern Saskatchewan and Southwestern
Manitoba...
Widespread seasonal fire activity was observed over a large region of
Southern Saskatchewan as well as in Southwestern Manitoba. One large
complex fire was observed in the vicinity of Wildcat Hill Provincial
Park in Southeastern Saskatchewan emitting thick density smoke that
was observed progressing northward and northeastward from the fire
complex. Light density smoke was observed over Southeastern Saskatchewan
and Southwestern Manitoba this evening.
DUST:
Eastern and Central Atlantic Ocean...
A large area of Saharan dust was seen over the Central and Eastern
Atlantic Ocean to the east of Hurricane Sam and to the north and west
of Tropical Storm Victor
extending westward to just east of the Eastern Caribbean Islands this
evening.
Sambucci
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)
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SSDFireTeam@noaa.gov