DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1640Z October 5, 2022
SMOKE: Pacific Northwest/British Columbia/Northern and Southern Canada... A sizable area of mostly light density smoke was observed extending from the Pacific Northwest and British Columbia, engulfing all of Washington and parts of southern British Columbia along the border. The smoke mainly derived from wildfires across the Pacific Northwest. Within this region, a large patch of moderate dense smoke was observed, moving south/southeast, with thick smoke being closer to the sources of the fire in central Washington and west-central Oregon. Despite heavy cloud cover engulfing majority of Canada, pocket of smoke was observable, notable a patch of moderate dense smoke across the border between in the southern Northwest territories and northern Canada, moving westward, and an area of remnant smoke between the border of southern Canada and northern Great Plains. Southern U.S/Northeastern U.S... Numerous seasonal fires along the lower Mississippi River valley from the Missouri Bootheel to Louisiana produced a large area of smoke extending from Texas and the U.S Gulf States with the exception of Florida through the Ohio Valley and into southern Ontario/Quebec. Nguyen 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