DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0032Z September 10, 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 out into the open Pacific Ocean while also extending from the northwestern CONUS into the Great Plains, western Great Lakes, southern and eastern Canada, the northeastern CONUS, the Labrador Sea, Greenland, Iceland, and the northern Atlantic. The thickest smoke was observed throughout the northwestern U.S. where numerous wildfires were releasing large amounts of thick smoke that was observed around southern British Columbia, Idaho, western Montana, Oregon, Washington and northern California. Another wildfire in Northern British Columbia was producing a large amount of moderate to dense smoke that was generally moving east into northern Alberta. Another area of moderate smoke starts in the central U.S. near Kansas and the Oklahoma panhandle and extends to the northeast stretching across the states and out over the Atlantic ocean south of Long Island, New England and Nova Scotia all of which are also covered by moderate smoke. The bulk of the smoke is seen dispersing predominantly toward the east across northern U.S. and southern Canada with the exception of some smoke traveling off the west coast. 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