Wednesday, August 31, 2022

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

 


Unless otherwise indicated:
  • Areas of smoke are analyzed using GOES-EAST and GOES-WEST Visible satellite imagery.
  • Only a general description of areas of smoke or significant smoke plumes will be analyzed.
  • A quantitative assessment of the density/amount of particulate or the vertical distribution is not included.
  • Widespread cloudiness may prevent the detection of smoke even from significant fires.