DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1707Z August 24, 2022
SMOKE: Canada/Northern U.S. ... Multiple large wildfires continued to burn across western, central, and northern Canada and the northwestern U.S., resulting in a large plume of predominantly light density smoke covering much of central and western Canada, while also extending from the northwestern U.S. through the northern Great Plains, the Midwest, the Great Lakes region and continues east over the coastal Atlantic Ocean south of Long Island. An area of moderate to heavy density smoke was detected from the central Northwestern Territories to the southeast, covering parts of Alberta, Saskatchewan, western/southern Manitoba, and far western Ontario. Heavier smoke plumes were present near the wildfires burning in central-southern Northwestern Territories, western Manitoba, northern Alberta and Saskatchewan. A number of ongoing wildfires in northern California, western Oregon, and central Idaho were producing moderate to locally heavy density plumes. DUST: Western Caribbean... Light Saharan dust was visible moving westward south of Jamaica over the Caribbean Ocean. 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