DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0305Z Sunday, September 7, 2020
SMOKE:
Western U.S. into Central U.S…
An area of extremely thick smoke was observed over most of California
and Oregon before turning east over Idaho, Wyoming and into the central
plains including Kansas, Colorado and northern Texas. A combination
of new smoke due to a number of very large fire complexes and stagnant
remnant smoke from previous days was to blame. Moderate to light density
smoke also related to the widespread fire activity also extended off of
the Pacific coast of California, over much of the western U.S. and across
the northern and central plains prior to engulfing the Great Lakes region
and Mississippi Valley. Additional scattered fire activity throughout
Colorado, Washington, Oregon and Idaho added to the increased volume of
smoke encompassing much of the United States.
DUST:
Pacific Northwest...
Waves of light blowing dust were observed moving through far southwestern
Canada into Washington state and northern Oregon.
JL
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: http://www.ospo.noaa.gov/data/land/fire/currenthms.jpg
GIS: ftp://satpsanone.nesdis.noaa.gov/FIRE/HMS/GIS/
KML: http://www.ospo.noaa.gov/data/land/fire/fire.kml (fire)
http://www.ospo.noaa.gov/data/land/fire/smoke.kml (smoke)
ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS REGARDING THIS PRODUCT SHOULD BE SENT TO:
SSDFireTeam@noaa.gov