DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0130Z August 4, 2022
SMOKE: Northern and Southern United States, Southern Canada .. A large area of light to moderate density smoke, from the ongoing fires over the western United States and southern Canada, was extending across most of the Northwestern U.S and the Great Plains along with the southern portion of Canada. The southern portion of the area of smoke which extended through Texas and into small sections of Mexico, was also likely a result of a few fires over Texas as well some contributions to smoke over in the Gulf of Mexico. The smoke may extend further east however cloud cover extending from eastern Canada through the Ohio Valley and into Missouri, made the extent difficult to determine. Within the large area of smoke, localized moderate to high density smoke was seen closer to the fire activity over the western United States and southern Canada. There were also several areas of moderate density smoke with those being over the Southern Plains from northeast Texas to southwest Missouri and also from Wyoming to the Dakotas. Alaska... A wildfire in east central Alaska was observed produce a small area of moderate to heavy dense smoke moving eastward. DUST: Tropical Atlantic, Caribbean Sea and Southern Gulf of Mexico ... An area of Saharan dust was extending across the Tropical Atlantic, through the Caribbean Sea and extending into the southern Gulf of Mexico. Nguyen 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