DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1645Z August 7, 2022
SMOKE: North Central and Northwestern U.S./Southwestern Canada/Pacific off the Northwest U.S. Coast… Wildfires were detected over southern British Columbia, western Montana, northern and central Idaho, central Washington, west central Oregon, and northern California resulting in a broad area of thinner density smoke which covered portions of the northwestern and north central U.S., far southwestern and south central Canada, and off the northwest U.S. coast over the far eastern Pacific. The smoke likely also mixed with smoke from the northwestern Canadian wildfires somewhere over the north central U.S. and south central Canada. Patches of thicker density smoke were visible closer to some of these wildfires this morning and in some of the nearby valley regions. Northwestern and Central Canada… Wildfires scattered across the Northwest Territories and northern Alberta were responsible for patches of moderate to thick density smoke which were visible this morning moving to the east and southeast over northern Saskatchewan and central and western Manitoba along with southeastern Saskatchewan. Thinner density smoke from these fires extended farther to the east reaching southwestern Hudson Bay and northwestern Ontario as well as to the south possibly extending into Montana and North Dakota where it likely mixed with smoke from the western U.S. wildfires. Central and Eastern U.S./Southeastern Canada/Atlantic off the Northeast U.S. Coast and Southeast Canada… A large area of thin density smoke was seen stretching from portions of the central and south central U.S. eastward to the northern part of the Mid-Atlantic region and the Northeast. The smoke then continued to the east over far southeastern Canada and over the north Atlantic off the northeastern U.S. and Southeastern Canada coastlines. This leftover smoke was believed to be from a combination of the wildfires burning in the western U.S. as well as wildfires in central and northwestern Canada and in Newfoundland of southeastern Canada. Newfoundland... Several wildfires in Newfoundland were emitting moderate to thick density smoke which moved off to the northeast this morning. Cloud cover over and around Newfoundland at times prevented additional information on the extent of the smoke from these wildfires. DUST: Tropical Atlantic… An area of Saharan dust was observed spreading slowly to the west across the tropical and subtropical Atlantic with the western portion reaching the Atlantic to the north of Puerto Rico and Hispaniola. JS 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