DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0126Z September 14, 2023
SMOKE: Canada, United States, North Atlantic Ocean, Gulf of Mexico and Mexico…. Numerous major wildfires continue to burn in western and northwestern Canada resulting in significant smoke with an area of thick smoke seen over western Saskatchewan, eastern Alberta and the southern Northwest Territories. Moderate density smoke was seen extending from this area east through central Canada into portions of northern Quebec. Moderate (to even dense smoke near the sources) was visible in northern Idaho, western Oregon, and over northwestern California extending west over the coastal Pacific Ocean. The much larger surrounding area of mainly thin density smoke attributed primarily to the Canadian wildfires covered virtually all of Canada, the central, eastern, and northwestern United States, the Gulf of Mexico, northern Mexico, the eastern Pacific Ocean and some of the Atlantic Ocean off the United States East coast and eastern Canadian coast. 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