DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0123Z September 28, 2022
SMOKE: Western and Central Canada/Western, Northwestern U.S./Pacific Ocean/... An expansive area of light density smoke with large areas of moderate and thick density smoke from numerous wildfires in the southern Northwest Territories, British Columbia, Alberta` Oregon, Washington and Idaho extends from the Pacific Ocean off the coast of the northwestern U.S. and Mexico, through the northern U.S. up till central South Dakota. This smoke is also moving north where it is combining with smoke from the meritorious wildfires in Northern Canada to cover most of British Columbia and Manitoba, all of Alberta and The southern Northwest Territories with at least light density smoke. The thickest smoke was observed throughout the northwestern U.S. and western Canada where numerous wildfires were releasing large amounts of moderate to thick smoke that was observed around British Columbia, The Northwest Territories, Manitoba, Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington. Another wildfire in central California was producing light density smoke that was generally moving east across the state. Southern U.S/Gulf of Mexico/... Light smoke was observed extending from Western Texas through the southern/central Plains, then eastward through the southern Mississippi Valley . The smoke also extends further east into parts of the southern eastern U.S, furthest being northwestern tip of Florida. The smoke was also observed throughout the Gulf of Mexico and parts of Eastern Mexico. This large area of smoke was due to a combination of western U.S and Canadian wildfires and smoke from numerous agricultural burns throughout the southern U.S., A larger area moderate density smoke was observed over the Mississippi Valley from heavy agricultural burning in the region. 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