DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1729Z August 31, 2022
SMOKE: Northwestern U.S., Southern Canada.... Recent heavy wildfires in the Yukon and Northwest Territories have become cloud covered but large amounts of remnant smoke from these fires was seen stretching from off the coast of British Columbia to southern Manitoba. Smoke from these fires was mixing with wildfires in the western U.S which were producing moderate to heavy smoke that stretches from off the coast of northern California to the east covering all or most of Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana Northern Colorado and western South Dakota. Central California... Two wildfires in east-central California was seen producing light to moderate density smoke that was moving west this morning. Additionally, there was remnant smoke seen in the valleys in western Nevada northeast of this fire. DUST: Caribbean... An area of light Saharan dust was observed over the central Caribbean Sea south of Cuba. 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