DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1645Z October 2, 2023
SMOKE: Canada/United States/Atlantic Ocean/Northern Gulf of Mexico… Rather widespread cloud cover across a good portion of Canada prevented some information on the extent and density of smoke which may still be present. Only smoke localized stagnant thicker density smoke was seen near a few of the wildfires in northeastern British Columbia and northwestern Alberta this morning. Farther to the east and southeast, a much larger area of leftover thinner density smoke, attributed mainly to the northwestern Canada wildfires, was visible over southern Ontario and portions of Quebec, along with roughly the eastern half of the U.S., the northern Gulf of Mexico and extending well off the U.S. east coast and Canada east coast out over the Atlantic Ocean. Within the larger mass of thin density smoke was a concentrated swath of moderate to thick density smoke which extended from just off the Canadian Maritime region to the southwest off the U.S. east coast and inland over some of the Carolinas. Central and South Central U.S… A wildfire to the south of Beaumont in southeastern Texas was producing some moderate smoke this morning which moved to the west and southwest. A larger leftover batch of thin density smoke from this fire was seen moving to the northwest across central and north central Texas. In addition, leftover thin density smoke with a few relatively small patches of moderate density smoke from recent daily seasonal burning in the Mississippi Delta region of southeastern Missouri and eastern Arkansas was present over portions of the central and south central U.S. 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