DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0108Z October 12, 2023
SMOKE: Western Canada… Ongoing active wildfire activity across northern Alberta continues to produce light to moderate smoke spreading to the north into the Northwest Territories. The smoke continues east across northern Canada and through the southern Baffin Bay ending on the southwestern coast of Greenland. Northern and Central Plains/Mississippi Valley… Heavy agricultural burning from southeast Missouri and Arkansas yesterday as well as some new agricultural fires appearing later today produced a large thin patch of light residual smoke extending from southern North Dakota to the southeast through the central region of U.S and into southeastern Missouri and Arkansas where some moderate smoke was visible. West-central California… A fire in west-central California could be seen producing light density smoke which moved to the southwest just over the coastal Pacific. Extensive cloud cover over the majority of North America precluded further smoke analysis this through the day. 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