DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1700Z August 25, 2022
SMOKE: Canada/Northern and Central 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 most Great Plains into Texas, the Midwest, the Great Lakes region, and continuing east over the Atlantic Ocean off of New England. An area of moderate density smoke was detected from the central Northwestern Territories to the southeast, covering parts of eastern British Columbia, majority of Alberta and Saskatchewan, southwest Manitoba, and extending further into the U.S and settling in the Dakotas. Heavier smoke plumes were present near the wildfires burning in central-southern Northwestern Territories, northeastern Alberta, and western Saskatchewan. A number of ongoing wildfires in northern California, western Oregon, and central Idaho were producing moderate density plumes along with thick density smoke that are more localized to the wildfire source areas. 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