DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0103Z September 9, 2022
SMOKE: Central/Eastern-Southern Canada/Eastern, Central, Northwestern,and Northern U.S, Atlantic Ocean, Pacific ocean... A very large plume primarily linked to wildfire activity in southern British Columbia, Idaho, western Montana western Oregon, western Washington and northern California continues to dominate most of central-southern Canada and the western and northern U.S. spreading medium density smoke across the southern Northwest Territories, British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and Ontario. Medium density smoke was visible over most of the northern and central U.S., plumbs of heavy density smoke could be seen across southern British Columbia, Idaho, western Montana, western Oregon, western Washington and northern California. The bulk of the smoke is seen dispersing predominantly toward the east across northern U.S. and southern Canada with light density smoke starting off the southwestern U.S./Mexico coast in the Pacific all the way off the eastern Atlantic coast stretching as far as south of Iceland. 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