DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0005Z September 9, 2021

SMOKE:
Lower 48 of the U.S/Far Eastern Pacific off the U.S. West
Coast/Southwestern and Southeastern Canada/Atlantic off the East Coasts
of the U.S. and Canada…
Very large coverage of smoke primarily due to the ongoing wildfires
burning in the western U.S. and southern British Columbia of southwestern
Canada continued to be seen today extending from over the far eastern
Pacific off the U.S. west coast inland and to the east over virtually
all of the western and central U.S. The area of smoke then narrowed
as it extended farther to the east and northeast across the Ohio
Valley. Areas of thinner density smoke were also seen over and off the
coast of the Mid-Atlantic region and the Northeast with additional areas
of thin density smoke visible extending well off the U.S. east coast and
eastern Canada over the Atlantic. Thicker smoke was noted in satellite
imagery covering portions of northern and central California and much
of Washington and Oregon with the thicker smoke extending to the east
of those areas across the Rockies to the Central Plains.


DUST:
Caribbean:
A thin plume of Saharan dust covers the central and eastern part of the
Caribbean Sea.

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:   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

Unless otherwise indicated:

Areas of smoke are analyzed using GOES-EAST and GOES-WEST Visible satellite imagery.

Only a general description of areas of smoke or significant smoke plumes will be analyzed.

A quantitative assessment of the density/amount of particulate or the vertical distribution is not included.

Widespread cloudiness may prevent the detection of smoke even from significant fires.