DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1620Z August 01, 2024
SMOKE: Canada/United States/Atlantic Ocean... Mixed density smoke attributed to a combination of seasonal fire activity throughout the United States and numerous wildfires in northern Canada and the Pacific Northwest region continues to be observed today. Light density smoke was seen throughout the majority of the northern region of the United States, extending east-southeast from the Northwest Territories, across the majority of Canada with the exception of British Columbia, and engulfing the Hudson Bay before dispersing into the Atlantic Ocean. Regions of moderate density smoke were concentrated in the Pacific Northwest, parts of British Columbia, Alberta and Saskatchewan, and a large patch that extended south from central U.S. and into parts of Manitoba and Ontario. California/Pacific Northwest... An area of mixed-density smoke attributed to numerous wildfires throughout the Pacific Northwest continues to be observed today. The Park Fire, located in Butte County, in north-central California, continues to produce a large plume of moderate to localized thick density smoke. The moderate smoke from the fire extended northeast into neighboring states, where it combined with the smoke from the numerous large wildfires in Oregon, which led the moderate smoke to engulf most of Oregon, Northern California, and parts of Idaho. DUST: A moderate amount of Saharan dust was seen through the western portion of the Gulf of Mexico and northeast of the Lesser Antilles with a lighter amount of Saharan dust seen in the Caribbean Sea. Nguyen 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