Sunday, August 7, 2022

DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0131Z August 8, 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 western 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 evening and
most of Oregon was covered with at least moderate density smoke.

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 today moving to the east and southeast over parts of
Saskatchewan, Manitoba and east into Ontario. Thinner density smoke from
these fires extended farther to the east reaching southwestern Hudson
Bay and northwestern Ontario as well as to the south  extending into
the northern U.S. mixing with smoke from the western U.S. wildfires.

Central and Eastern U.S...
A large area of thin density residual smoke was seen over portions of
the central U.S. stretching from New Mexico in the southwest to Ohio in
the northeast. Exact boundaries in these areas were hard to define with
the cloud cover that moved in latter in the day.

Newfoundland...
Earlier today, 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 this evening prevented additional
smoke analysis.

DUST:

Tropical Atlantic, Caribbean Sea...
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 and possibly
reaching the central Caribbean Sea.

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

 


Unless otherwise indicated:
  • Areas of smoke are analyzed using GOES-EAST and GOES-WEST Visible satellite imagery.
  • Only a general description of areas of smoke or significant smoke plumes will be analyzed.
  • A quantitative assessment of the density/amount of particulate or the vertical distribution is not included.
  • Widespread cloudiness may prevent the detection of smoke even from significant fires.