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