DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 2330Z August 3, 2025
SMOKE: Alaska/Canada/Great Lakes... Widespread light smoke persisted across the northern region of the continent as it circulated to the east, reaching the Atlantic Ocean. Wildfires in the Northwest Territories, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba continued to produce dense plumes of smoke which spread into large areas of moderate-to-heavy smoke and moved east across Ontario and thinned as it reached eastern Quebec. Smoke also spread south into the Great Lakes region and northeastern United States. Arizona/Utah/Central United States... The Monroe Canyon fire in central Utah, the Dragon Bravo fire in northern Arizona, and the Snowstorm fire in northern Nevada continued to produce concentrated moderate to thick smoke plumes that spread and dissipated to the east. Pacific NW... Any possible smoke emitting from the Bear Gulch fire on the Olympic Peninsula of Washington State was not visible due to heavy cloud coverage in the area. A fire on Vancouver Island continued to generate a smoke plume but the full extent was unknown also due to heavy clouds. Lastly, the Lightning Creek along the NE border of Idaho was emitting light density smoke that spread and dissipated to the east over Montana, but any smoke from the wildfires in central Idaho was obscured by cloud cover. California… The Gifford Fire in southern California produced a large, thin density smoke plume with smaller moderate-to-heavy plumes that drifted south over the western Channel Islands and made its way over Baja California. Ferrante 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 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