DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1700Z September 1, 2023
SMOKE: Canada/US Great Plains and Western Gulf of Mexico/Northeast Pacific Ocean/Northwest Atlantic Ocean... Smoke from the ongoing and persistent wildfire activity across British Columbia, northern Alberta, the southern Northwest Territories and the southern Yukon was extending from the parent fire activity in Western Canada moving both south then southeast across British Columbia out over the Pacific and eastward to east-northeastward across the Prairie Provinces, Montana, and the northern Plains. Some was then moving northeastward then curling around the north of a storm system over the Manitoba/Ontario border. Once this smoke reached southern Nunavut, the smoke began moving east-southeastward across Hudson Bay and Ontario and into southern Quebec and the northeastern CONUS. Remnant smoke was also observed near Greenland and the North Atlantic between Greenland, Iceland, and the Iberian Peninsula with some very light remnant smoke also drawn southwestward by Hurricane Franklin and Post-tropical Cyclone Idalia. Another area of remnant smoke that could also be the result of both Canadian Wildfire smoke and agricultural burning across the Plains and southeastern CONUS was seen across the western Gulf of Mexico and the central CONUS, merging with the aforementioned larger area of smoke from the Canadian Wildfires. California/Oregon… Wildfires in northwestern California were observed producing light to moderate density smoke that was seen moving W then SW then S out over the Pacific shoreline then just offshore parallel to the coast. Thicker smoke may be present but was difficult to discern due to extensive cloud cover over northern California. DUST: Eastern/Central Atlantic… A layer of Saharan dust was observed stretching from the Sahara westward across the tropical Atlantic to the Windward Islands in the eastern Caribbean. The layer is approximately south of 30N east of 40W and south of 20 west of 40W. Hosley 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