DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0100Z September 7, 2022
SMOKE: Central/Eastern-Southern Canada/Northwestern/Western/Central and Northern/ U.S A large area of smoke primarily linked to wildfire activity in southeastern British Columbia, Idaho and western Montana continued to cover a large area of Canada from eastern British Columbia east to Quebec/Newfoundland, the western and northern and central US. An area of moderately dense to dense smoke spreads across a large area of Ontario/Quebec and south into Minnesota and the northern Great Lakes region. Another area extends over parts of northwest California into western Oregon northeast into northern Oregon, most of Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, the Central Plains south from the Dakotas to the Texas Panhandle/Oklahoma area and east into Wisconsin and western Illinois and most of Missouri. Multiple wildfires in southern British Columbia, northern Idaho and western Montana are producing dense to very dense smoke from source. The bulk of the smoke is seen dispersing predominantly toward the east across northern U.S. and southern Canada. Earlier Today: DUST: Eastern Caribbean... Light Saharan dust could be seen in the southeastern Caribbean Sea. JK 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