DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0111Z August 1, 2022
SMOKE: Northern U.S./Southern Canada... A large area of mostly light to moderate density smoke, from the fires ongoing over the Western United States, was extending across most of the northern portions of the United States and southern Canada to portions of the northern New England and portions of eastern Quebec, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick into the coastal Atlantic. Within this area, a rather large area of high density smoke was seen near the ongoing fire activity and extending from northern California north through much of northern U.S. reaching Indiana before it moves under cloud cover. An area of moderate to thick density smoke was seen over Kansas and Nebraska. Another area of moderate to thick density smoke was seen over most of Colorado moving southeast. British Columbia... A wildfire in southern British Columbia was producing mostly heavy smoke that was moving east as analysis ended. Montana... A wildfire in northwest Montana just began to produce moderate to heavy smoke moving east as analysis ended. Southeastern United States Coastal Locations…. An area of light density smoke from the western United States fire activity that might also be mixed with some Saharan Dust was seen along coastal locations of the Southeastern United States extending from northern Florida to North Carolina and extending offshore. DUST: Tropical Atlantic and Caribbean Sea... An area of Saharan dust extended across the Tropical Atlantic and through to the western Caribbean Ocean and was also located north of Cuba. 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 map: https://www.ospo.noaa.gov/data/land/fire/currenthms.jpg Smoke data: https://satepsanone.nesdis.noaa.gov/pub/FIRE/web/HMS/Smoke_Polygons Fire data: https://satepsanone.nesdis.noaa.gov/pub/FIRE/web/HMS/Fire_Points ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS REGARDING THIS PRODUCT SHOULD BE SENT TO: SSDFireTeam@noaa.gov