DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0100Z August 22, 2022
SMOKE: Canada/Northern U.S. ... Multiple wildfires continue to burn across western, central and northern Canada, in addition to the northwestern U.S. resulting in a large plume of predominantly light density smoke covering most of Canada, while also extending from the northwestern U.S., passing through the northern Great Plains, U.S. Midwest, Great Lakes, and reaching New England and the northwestern Atlantic. An area of medium density smoke was also seen from the central Northwestern Territories, to central-northern Alberta and Saskatchewan, south-central Manitoba and northwestern Ontario. Heavier smoke plumes are present near the wildfires burning in central-southern Northwestern Territories, and northern Alberta and Saskatchewan. Additionally, the Six Rivers Lightning Complex in northwestern California was also seen emitting medium-to-heavy density smoke toward southern Oregon, along with wildfires in northern Wyoming which had plumes dispersing over Johnson County. DUST: Western Caribbean... Light Saharan dust was visible moving westward across the eastern Caribbean. WS 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