DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1710Z August 19, 2022
SMOKE: Much of Canada/Northwestern and Eastern United States…. Fire activity over the northwestern United States, southwestern Canada and northern Canada were combining to produce large areas of light to heavy density smoke that was extending across most of the northwestern, central and eastern CONUS, and much of Canada. Within this area localized areas of moderate to high density smoke were seen near the ongoing fire activity over the area. A large mass of moderate to heavy density smoke was seen extending generally east from northeastern Saskatchewan and southwestern northwest territories towards portions of northern Nunavut. Atlantic Ocean off eastern United States... An area of generally light density smoke was observed off the east coast of the U.S. south of New England and Nova Scotia. DUST: Tropical and Subtropical Atlantic Ocean and the eastern Caribbean Sea... An area of Saharan Dust was seen extending west from the Sahara into the Tropical Atlantic. Light Saharan Dust was seen extending into the western Caribbean Sea before running into cloud cover. 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