DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0142Z September 10, 2023
SMOKE: Canada/U.S./Atlantic Ocean off the U.S. and Canada East Coast/Pacific Ocean/Northern Gulf of Mexico ... The numerous large wildfires continued to burn especially in portions of British Columbia, northern Alberta, and the southern part of the Northwest Territories throughout the day. A large area of smoke mainly attributed to these fires covered most of western/central and northeastern Canada, south into the Central US reaching east into the south-central U.S., eastern U.S., northern Gulf of Mexico and parts of northwestern U.S and the Pacific Ocean along the coast of western U.S and southwest Canada. Another couple areas of light smoke extends over the North and central Atlantic, south of southern Greenland from residual smoke from wildfires in western Canada. An area of moderately dense to dense smoke extends across from western British Columbia to the east covering portions of Alberta, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario and Quebec. It then extends south into the northern/central Plains and Mississippi Valley and as far south as the southeastern United States. Within this area, thick density smoke was seen over parts of northern/central British Columbia, northern Alberta, central Saskatchewan and southern Ontario. DUST: Atlantic Ocean… Saharan dust continued to be observed over west Africa/off the coast and west across the eastern Atlantic. The dust thins out the farther west it extends. 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