DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1645Z September 7, 2023
SMOKE: Canada/U.S./Mexico/Gulf of Mexico/Atlantic Ocean off the U.S. and Canada East Coast... The numerous large wildfires continue to burn especially in portions of British Columbia, northern Alberta, and the southern part of the Northwest Territories this morning. This has been the case for weeks now and the resulting mass of smoke mainly attributed to these fires covers virtually all of Canada, the eastern two-thirds of the U.S., much of the Gulf of Mexico, and Mexico. In addition, the smoke had spread far off the east coast of Canada and the U.S. over the Atlantic nearly reaching Europe. Embedded thicker areas of smoke, within the larger surrounding coverage of thin density smoke, were visible over some of western and northwestern Canada though cloudiness in this region did interfere with the detection of some of the wildfires and smoke through satellite imagery. Another batch of moderate to thick density smoke was visible over south central Canada and extending southward into the Northern and Central Plains of the U.S. Other patches of moderate density smoke were over the Labrador Sea, off the coast of the northeastern U.S., and well out over the open Atlantic to the southeast of Greenland. DUST: Atlantic Ocean… The majority of Saharan dust continued to be generally confined to the open Atlantic east of the Caribbean region. JS 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