DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0030Z September 18, 2022
SMOKE: Northwestern U.S./Western and Central Canada... Thick smoke continued to be observed from the Mosquito Fire in northern California, extending toward the northeast into northwestern Nevada. A large area of remnant light smoke from these and other wildfires across the western U.S. and western Canada covered the majority of the northwestern U.S. and the western and central Canada reaching the Hudson Bay. Pockets of medium density smoke could be over northern Nevada, eastern Oregon and western Idaho, in addition to eastern Montana and southwestern North Dakota. Eastern United States... Predominantly light smoke was visible covering a large expanse including the Midwestern U.S., the Mississippi Valley and areas to the east with the exception of Florida. Multiple agricultural fires contributed medium density smoke along the mid-Mississippi Valley, while a larger area of medium density remnant smoke covered the eastern Great Lakes, the Ohio Valley and most of the mid-Atlantic states, extending eastward over the western Atlantic. WS 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