DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1700Z August 26, 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 mostly light density smoke covering much of central and western Canada, and 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 offshore 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, the majority of Alberta and Saskatchewan, southwest Manitoba, and extending further into the U.S through the northern regions surrounding the Great Lakes. A large patch of thick dense smoke was observed over south-central region of the Northwest Territories before moving into cloud cover. A patch of moderate dense smoke was observed extending through northwest California and central Oregon, fueled from the ongoing wildfires in the states. In addition, a number of ongoing wildfires in northern California, western Oregon, and central Idaho were producing small moderate density plumes with some heavy density plumes that were 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