DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0100Z August 19, 2022
SMOKE: Canada/Northwestern and Central United States…. Fire activity over the northwestern United States, southwestern Canada and northern Canada were combining to produce a large area of mostly light density smoke that was extending across most of the northwestern and central U.S and Canada. Within this area localized areas of moderate to high density smoke were seen near the ongoing fire activity over the area. The most notable area was the Northwestern Territory, where numerous fires were observed producing large areas of high density smoke, in addition with some fires in western U.S. Cloud cover over certain parts of eastern Canada, southeastern U.S, and along the western coast of the U.S obstructed smoke analysis in these regions, most notably over the wildfire producing high density smoke in California. DUST: Tropical and Subtropical Atlantic Ocean and the eastern Caribbean Sea…. An area of Saharan Dust was seen extending from the Sahara into the central Tropical Atlantic. The dust is may be likely to travel and move into the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico over the next few days. Nguyen 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