DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0240Z August 14, 2022
SMOKE: United States, Southwestern and South Central Canada… A large area of light density smoke covered much of southwestern and south central Canada as well as portions of the western, central, and the southeastern United States. The smoke over the western and northwestern United States and southwestern Canada was from a combination of the wildfires burning in the far western and northwestern part of the United States and British Columbia of southwestern Canada. The smoke over south central Canada, and the central and southeastern Unite States was also from the wildfires in the far western and northwestern United States and British Columbia, though smoke contribution from the recent wildfire activity in northwestern Canada may also be occurring in these areas. Moderate to high density smoke was located closer to the fire activity especially in northwestern California and Washington. Northern Canada… A number of wildfires across the Northwest Territories was responsible for areas of moderate to thick density smoke which spread to the east and southeast over northern Canada with moderate density smoke extending as far east to near northern Quebec. Another area of moderate density smoke was seen over portions of northern Alberta and northern Saskatchewan. DUST: Eastern Caribbean, Tropical and Subtropical Atlantic… An area of Saharan dust was seen extending across the Tropical and Subtropical Atlantic Ocean and was moving through the eastern Caribbean Islands and eastern Caribbean Sea and approaching portions of the central Caribbean islands and central Caribbean Sea. Hanna 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