DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1713Z September 6, 2022
SMOKE: Central/Eastern-Southern Canada/Northwestern and Northern U.S... A very large plume primarily linked to wildfire activity in southeastern British Columbia, Idaho and western Montana continues to dominate most of central-southern Canada and the northwestern and northern U.S. spreading medium density smoke across the southeastern Northwest Territories, central Nunavut and Hudson Bay, eastern British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, western-central Quebec, in addition to northwestern California, southwestern-central-eastern Oregon, Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, the Dakotas, Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, Kansas and Texas. Areas of heavy smoke could be seen across northeastern and southern Manitoba,northwestern Ontario, eastern Montana, northeastern and southwestern North Dakota, and northwestern South Dakota, in addition to central Idaho and northwestern California. The bulk of the smoke is seen dispersing predominantly toward the east across northern U.S. and southern Canada. DUST: Eastern Caribbean... Light Saharan dust could be seen in the southeastern Caribbean Sea. 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