DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1645Z September 2, 2023
SMOKE: Canada/U.S./Mexico/Western Gulf of Mexico/Atlantic Ocean off the U.S. and Canada East Coast/Far Eastern Pacific Off the U.S. West Coast and Mexico Coast... Numerous large intense wildfires continue to burn in portions of British Columbia, northern Alberta, and the southern part of the Northwest Territories resulting in a mass of moderate to very thick smoke which generally spread to the east during the morning impacting portions of British Columbia, much of Alberta, central and northern Saskatchewan, western Ontario, the southern part of the northwest Territories, southern and eastern Nunavut, and the western part of Hudson Bay. The smoke generally thinned out in density as it spread farther to the east over eastern Canada and the Labrador Sea. An embedded batch of mainly moderate density smoke associated with these fires was also seen over southeastern Canada, some of the Northeastern U.S. and extending offshore over the far western Atlantic. A much larger surrounding area of thin density smoke primarily from the western Canada wildfires covered the remainder of the southern half or so of Canada along with the central and eastern U.S., the western Gulf of Mexico, a good portion of Mexico, some of the far eastern Pacific off the western and southern coast of Mexico and Baja, and the far eastern Pacific off the Pacific Northwest and Vancouver island. Texas/Louisiana… A few wildfires in eastern Texas and southwestern Louisiana were producing smoke this morning with some leftover moderate to thicker density smoke visible over eastern and southeastern Texas including some of the Houston metro area. A larger wildfire north of Houston was responsible for the thicker smoke in this region. DUST: Eastern/Central Atlantic… Saharan dust was generally confined to the open Atlantic east of the Caribbean region. JS 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