DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1630Z August 5, 2022
SMOKE: Northwestern and Central CONUS and Southern Canada… A number of large wildfires were burning from southern British Columbia to northern California were seen continuing to produce light, to at times moderate, smoke with a larger area of light remnant smoke blanketing a large portion of the Intermountain West, the Great Plains, the Great Lakes, the Ohio Valley, the northeastern CONUS and Maritime Canada. Some remnant smoke may have been seen across the central Prairie Provinces into Ontario. Another area of remnant smoke, which may have its origins from wildfire activity in northwestern Canada, Alaska, or possibly Siberia, was seen moving southeast across eastern Nunavut and Hudson Bay. Smoke was moving primarily eastward from parent fire activity across the northwestern CONUS, with remnant smoke moving south over the Great Plains and east-northeast from over the Mid-Atlantic out into the North Atlantic. Alaska/Northwestern Canada… Wildfires from northeastern Alaska into the Northwest Territory were observed producing light to moderate density smoke with remnant smoke of varying density. Smoke from active fire activity in south-central Northwest Territory was seen moving northwest, with thick remnant smoke from yesterday seen over north-central Northwest Territory. A wildfire in northeastern Alaska, which has now become obscured by cloud cover, was likely actively producing a moderate density smoke plume extending north then northeastward into the Arctic Ocean. A larger area of light remnant smoke was seen extending from the wildfire activity in Northwest Territory west across the Yukon/British Columbia border, northwest across all of Northwest Territory, northern Yukon, northeastern and north-central Alaska, then north and northeast into the Arctic. Some remnant smoke was also seen moving south from the southern Northwest Territory into northern and central Alberta. DUST: Tropical Atlantic/eastern Caribbean… An area of light to moderate Saharan dust was observed extending across the Tropical Atlantic to just across the Windward and Leeward Islands. Hosley 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