DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1545Z October 9, 2024
SMOKE: Northwestern/Central/Midwestern/Southeastern United States... A large area of mixed density smoke attributed to large wildfires in western Oregon, central Idaho, southwestern Montana, western/northern Wyoming, and northern Utah continues to be seen stretching eastward through the Central Plains and continuing southeastward through the Mississippi River Basin. The residual wildfire smoke and seasonal burning throughout the Southeastern United States resulted in a layer of light to moderate density smoke that was seen covering the majority of the South-Central and Southeastern regions of the U.S. and extending south through Texas and into the western part of the Gulf of Mexico and was seen blowing east towards the Atlantic Coast with the winds of Hurricane Milton as the morning progressed. Moderate density smoke was observed moving east of major wildfires in central Idaho, southwestern Montana, western/northern Wyoming and northeastern Utah, extending through the Dakotas, western Iowa, Nebraska and parts of Kansas. Several scattered individual smoke plumes were visible this morning throughout the Western and the Southeastern United States. Willkens 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