DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0100Z August 5, 2022
SMOKE: Western and Central CONUS and Southwestern Canada… A number of large wildfires were burning throughout the region extending from northern California to southern British Columbia and eastward into Montana. Many of these fires were producing large plumes of dense smoke extending generally east-northeastward from their parent fires. A large area of light remnant smoke extended across much of the contiguous U.S. and the southern prairie provinces of Canada. Alaska/Northwestern Canada… Fires in northeastern Alaska were observed to be producing plumes of moderate to dense smoke extending eastward over the Yukon. Additional fires throughout Northwest Territories were producing more localized plumes of up to dense smoke as well. Additionally, remnant smoke from these fires, as well as possible remnant smoke from fires in Siberia, extended across northern Alaska and the Arctic regions of northwestern Canada. DUST: Tropical Atlantic, eastern Caribbean ... An area of light Saharan dust was extending across the Tropical Atlantic, through the eastern Caribbean region. MTC 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