DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0122Z September 14, 2021
SMOKE:
Continental U.S./Canada/Mexico/Pacific...
A very large thin density plume covers a large part of central and
eastern U.S., a small part of south-central and southeastern Canada,
northwestern Mexico, and over the Pacific Ocean. Within this thin density
plume, a moderate density plume was found extending from Kansas/Oklahoma,
through the Midwest and Lower Great Lakes region, into the Tennessee
and Ohio Valleys, and to the Mid-Atlantic.
Western U.S. ...
Intense wildfires continue across northern and central California with
smaller fires over the Pacific Northwest. A large detached light to thick
density smoke plume from these wildfires covers the Northern Plains,
parts of the Northern Rockies, and extends to the central and eastern
U.S. smoke in as well a as the large area of smoke covering the . Also
detected were smaller thin to heavy plumes associated with two large
wildfires complexes, one over northwestern California and another in
the San Joaquin Valley.
Atlantic...
A large light density plume from ongoing wildfires in the Western U.S. was
detected off the Mid-Atlantic coast to just south of Newfoundland to
not far southwest of Iceland earlier today. The plume that is still
visible this afternoon becomes moderate and heavy density starting at
the Mid-Atlantic coast to south of Nova Scotia.
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