DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1600Z September 9, 2022
SMOKE: Western and Eastern Canada/Western, Central, and northeastern CONUS/Pacific Ocean/Atlantic Ocean/Greenland/Iceland... An expansive area of smoke extends from the western CONUS west out into the open Pacific Ocean while also extending from the northwestern CONUS into the Great Plains, western Great Lakes, eastern Canada, the northeastern CONUS, the Labrador Sea, Greenland, the Denmark Strait, Iceland, and the northern Atlantic. The thickest smoke is seen emanating from the Cedar Creek Fire in central Oregon and moving westward out into the Pacific. Moderate density smoke exists from just east of the Front Range into southern Quebec, over the Davis Strait...Greenland...and the Denmark Strait, across the central Sierras and Sacramento Valley, the Intermountain West, portions of the Pacific Northwest, and east-central British Columbia. Smoke is being drawn east-southeastward from the Intermountain west to the Great Plains, from where it is drawn east-northeastward into the Great Lakes and eastern Canada. From there, some is drawn south over the northeastern CONUS but most is drawn further north-northeast across Quebec and into and across Greenland. From here, the smoke is getting trapped by a high pressure area at the southern tip of Greenland, while some that is drawn south off the southeastern coast of Greenland is becoming entrained within a low pressure area between Greenland and Iceland. There is also some amount of smoke being drawn east-southeastward across the North Atlantic to southwest of Ireland. Hosley 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