DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0104Z August 27, 2022
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 light to moderate 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, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, into western Ontario 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 west-central region of Canada around the Northwest Territories, Alberta, and Saskatchewan. 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. Central California... Two wildfires in eastern central California was seen producing moderate density smoke that was moving east into Nevada. Blowing Dust: An area of light to moderate blowing dust was observed moving east from Black Rock Desert in northwestern Nevada. 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