DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0145Z October 2, 2021
SMOKE: Eastern U.S., Central U.S., Southwestern U.S., Western U.S., Northern Mexico, Central and Eastern Canada… A large area of mostly light density smoke, from the wildfires over the western United States and central Canada, extended from much of central and eastern Canada south into the eastern United States and offshore Atlantic Ocean and then further west through the central United States and then southwest to the southwest United States and northern Mexico. Within this area of smoke, moderate density smoke was seen over portions of the Upper Midwest of the United States and then also over the central Plains states. Central Canada… Two large complex fires over eastern central Saskatchewan continued to produce large amounts of moderate to thick density smoke that was extending north through northeastern Saskatchewan and northwestern Manitoba into the southeastern Northwest Territories and southwestern Nunavut. California/Pacific… The two large wildfires over south central California continued to burn vigorously during the afternoon and evening hours producing a moderate to high density area of smoke that covers much of south central California with lighter density smoke extending offshore southern California into the Pacific. DUST: Eastern and Central Atlantic Ocean... A large area of Saharan dust was seen over the central and eastern Atlantic Ocean moving west and was just east of the eastern Caribbean Islands. YL 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