DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0136Z October 4, 2022
SMOKE: Northern CONUS/Pacific Northwest/southern and eastern Canada... A sizable area of mostly light to moderate density smoke covers an area from Central Northwest Territory, the Pacific Northwest, far northern U.S., to central Ontario. This smoke is mainly from wildfires across the Pacific Northwest and Central Canada. this mass of smoke is generally moving east. Moderate to dense smoke was observed from the ongoing wildfires in the southern Northwest territories moving southeast and then east into central Ontario. other areas with moderate to dense smoke were western Oregon, Northern Washington, north and south British Colombia. Lower Mississippi Valley... Numerous seasonal fires were observed along the lower Mississippi River valley from the Missouri Bootheel to Louisiana, with fires in the agricultural areas on either side of the river. Smoke from these fires was observed moving generally southwest, and consisted of moderate to dense smoke primarily over eastern Arkansas, northern Louisiana, with lighter smoke extending through Louisiana and into eastern New Mexico, Western Kentucky, Tennessee, and Mississippi. 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