Sunday, August 14, 2022

DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0110Z August 15, 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 producing thick smoke  northern
California to include the coastal Pacific through central California.

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 smoke today 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 be

DUST:
Tropical and Subtropical Atlantic…
Saharan dust was visible in satellite imagery over the open tropical and
subtropical Atlantic extending to the west coast of Africa. Some dust
may also be in the central Caribbean south of Hispaniola but clouds were
interfering with analysis in this region.

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.