DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0050Z September 18, 2023
SMOKE: Canada, Central United States, Eastern United States, Pacific Northwest United States, North Atlantic Ocean, northern Gulf of Mexico and Pacific Ocean off of Oregon and northern California…. Persistent and ongoing wildfire activity across western Canada is continuing to produce a large amount of moderate and high density smoke that extends from eastern British Columbia eastward across northern Alberta and Saskatchewan into the eastern Northwest Territories and extending northeast from there across much of northern Canada to northern portions of Baffin Bay. Moderate density smoke extended southeast into the Northern Plains and continued south over the Mississippi Valley where were moderate seasonal burning mixed with the lager area of smoke. A larger area of thin density smoke, from the Canadian fires, was seen over most of Canada, much of the Central and Eastern United States, over a portion of the North Atlantic Ocean and over portions of the northern Gulf of Mexico. Fire activity over northern California and the Pacific Northwest was also producing an area of mostly light density smoke that was seen over much of the Pacific Northwest and merged with the larger area of smoke over portions of southern Canada. Some higher density smoke was seen with this along coastal locations of southwest Oregon and extending south along coastal locations of northwest California. 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