DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0100Z August 29, 2023
SMOKE: Canada/Alaska/Northwestern&North-Central CONUS/Greenland/Iceland/British Isles… Smoke from persistent wildfire activity across western Canada was seen extending from BC and Northwest Territory east-southeastward across the Canadian Rockies, Prairie Provinces, the Northern Plains, and the Great Lakes. Another area of thicker smoke attributed to this activity was seen across the Canadian Maritime Provinces, Davis Strait, Greenland, the North Atlantic, Iceland, and reaching the British Isles. Wildfire activity across the Pacific Northwest and northern California was also seen producing thick smoke that was being drawn northward from California along the Pacific coast into BC where the smoke was then being drawn out westward over the Pacific and into a low pressure system off the Pacific Northwest coast. Across British Columbia, smoke from both major sources was seen merging. Western Gulf of Mexico… Light smoke was seen across the western Gulf of Mexico and surrounding coastal areas. The smoke is likely a result of agricultural burning across the southeastern CONUS and Great Plains with some contributions from remnant Canadian Wildfire smoke. The smoke appears to be moving southward into the western Bay of Campeche. DUST: Eastern Atlantic… Thick Saharan Dust was seen across much of the North Atlantic from 40W eastward. Some lighter dust was seen extending westward to just northeast of the Caribbean islands. There may be some very light dust that exists across the Caribbean as well. 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