DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1510Z September 7, 2024
SMOKE: Canada/United States/Pacific Ocean/Atlantic Ocean... Along the North American Pacific West Coast, ongoing seasonal burning and wildfire activity stretching down from the Canadian Northwest Territories to the US Northwestern states of Washington, Oregon, California, and Idaho, has produced a significant mass of mixed density smoke. The combined mass of remnant smoke was observed moving eastwards across the Canadian interior and Northern US Midwestern states before breaking into two segments. The Canadian segment continued to shift eastwards over the Hudson Bay. The US segment pushed Southwards towards the Gulf of Mexico before wrapping around the Southern bend of the Appalachian mountains, and then drifted North along the Atlantic Seaboard before finally blowing out into the Atlantic Ocean. DUST: A light amount of Saharan Dust was seen traveling westward across the Atlantic Ocean towards the Lesser Antilles with a lighter amount of Saharan Dust seen over the eastern Caribbean Sea. Cardona 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