DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1630Z August 14, 2022
SMOKE: Northwestern, Central, and Southeastern U.S./Southwestern and South Central Canada… A huge area of primarily thin density smoke extended from southwestern Canada and portions of the northwestern U.S. to the east over south central Canada and the north central U.S. From there, the smoke fanned out and extended to the south over much of the central U.S. and southeastern U.S. This very large area of smoke was mainly due to wildfires burning in southern British Columbia and parts of the northwestern U.S. Smaller patches of moderate to thick density smoke were visible closer to some of the wildfires especially in southeastern British Columbia, central Washington, central Idaho, western Montana, west central Oregon, and northwestern California. Smoke from the Six Rivers Lightning Complex fire in northwestern California was notably thick in the approximate region between Eureka and Redding and north of Ukiah. Northern Canada… A number of wildfires scattered mainly across the Northwest Territories were responsible for a significant amount of smoke of moderate to thick density which spread to the east and southeast from the Northwest Territories over western and southern Nunavut to the western part of Hudson Bay. From there the smoke thinned out in density as it moved over northern Quebec and over the Labrador Sea. DUST: Tropical and Subtropical Atlantic… The only Saharan dust which was visible in satellite imagery this morning was well east of the Caribbean region out over the open tropical and subtropical Atlantic extending to the west coast of Africa. 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