DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0106Z August 9, 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 thin to moderate 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 the sources of the wildfires this evening and much of Oregon, Washington and Idaho was covered with at least moderate density smoke. Northwestern and Central Canada... Wildfires scattered across the southern Canada were responsible for an area of light density smoke which was visible over southern British Columbia, southern Alberta,southern Saskatchewan, Manitoba and east into southwestern Ontario. An area of moderate density smoke was visible stretching from Minnesota to northwestern Ontario. Newfoundland... Several wildfires in Newfoundland were emitting moderate to thick density smoke that was seen moving southeast through breaks in the clouds this evening. This smoke became cloud covered in southeastern Newfoundland. 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 now across Puerto Rico and Hispaniola along with the central Caribbean. The dust also was noted to the north of Puerto Rico and Hispaniola and beginning to affect the Bahamas. 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