DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0114Z September 4, 2022
SMOKE: North Central and Northwestern U.S./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 large area of layered light, moderate, and heavy density smoke that was spreading to the east which covered the western and central U.S. to include the Pacific stretching approximately 1,300 miles off the northwestern Mexican & central Californian coast over the far eastern Pacific, as well as much of southern Canada and north into the Yukon and the Northwest Territories. A large area of moderate to heavy density smoke was observed covering all or most of Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Northern Colorado, British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. The light density smoke stretched to the northeast and reached over New England and southern Quebec. There is cloud cover over most of the eastern U.S. and Canada precluding further analysis of this region Central California... Two wildfires in east-central California was seen producing light to moderate density smoke that was moving northwest into Nevada this evening. Blowing Dust: An area of moderate to thick density blowing dust kicked up at around 2100Z from the Black Rock Desert in northwestern Nevada. The dust was observed moving northeast from Black Rock Desert in northwestern Nevada into southeastern Oregon. DUST: Tropical Atlantic... Saharan Dust was seen extending from Africa west to about 50W over a tropical disturbance north-northwest of Cabo Verde earlier. 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