DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1628Z September 1, 2022
SMOKE: North Central and Northwestern U.S./Southern Canada/Pacific off the Northwest U.S. Coast... Wildfires were detected over British Columbia, western Montana, northern and central Idaho, Washington, Oregon, and California resulting in a broad area of light to moderate density smoke that was spreading to the east which covered portions of the western, northwestern and north central U.S. as well as parts of southern Canada and off the northwestern Mexico & Californian coast over the far eastern Pacific. A large area of moderate density smoke was observed covering all or most of Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Northern Colorado, southern British Columbia, southern Alberta and southern Saskatchewan. Patches of thicker density smoke were visible closer to most of the wildfires this morning. Central California... Two wildfires in east-central California was seen producing light to moderate density smoke that was moving northwest this morning. DUST: Caribbean... An area of light Saharan dust was observed over the central Caribbean Sea south of Cuba before becoming enveloped by cloud cover. 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