Saturday, October 22, 2022

DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1601Z October 22, 2022

SMOKE:
North-Central and Eastern U.S./ Gulf of Mexico/South Central and Southern
Canada...
A huge mass of thin to moderate density remnant smoke attributed mainly
to recent daily seasonal/agricultural type fire activity occurring
especially in the Mississippi Valley and the southeastern U.S. as well
as contributions from recent and current wildfire activity in the
Pacific Northwest, Western Canada and The Northwest Territories was
present covering much of the north-central and eastern U.S. continuing
east and south over south central and the the eastern U.S. wile also
reaching eastern Canada, the Atlantic just off the southeast coast of
the U.S. and over the Gulf of Mexico along the Gulf states. Within this
mass of thin density smoke a area of moderate density smoke was observed
around the Great Lakes Region east into southwestern Quebec.

Pacific Northwest, Western Canada, The Northwest Territories.
Some of the ongoing wildfires in the Pacific Northwest, Western Canada
and The Northwest Territories were detected but do to heavy cloud cover
smoke in this region could not be analyzed.

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

 


Unless otherwise indicated:
  • Areas of smoke are analyzed using GOES-EAST and GOES-WEST Visible satellite imagery.
  • Only a general description of areas of smoke or significant smoke plumes will be analyzed.
  • A quantitative assessment of the density/amount of particulate or the vertical distribution is not included.
  • Widespread cloudiness may prevent the detection of smoke even from significant fires.