DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 2330Z October 4, 2025
SMOKE: Great Plains/US Midwest/Ohio Valley/New England/Atlantic Ocean... A large area of very light density smoke could be seen this evening extending eastward from US Midwest and Great Lakes area, over the Ohio Valley, New England, and New Brunswick, finally reaching the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Nova Scotia. The smoke also extended southward, continued through the Central Great Plains and Southeastern United States, merged with the individual smoke plumes produced by the agricultural burning in the Lower Mississippi Valley, and ultimately reached the Gulf of America off the coast of Texas and Louisiana. Central Washington... The Labor Mountain fire continued to burn in Kittitas County with light-to-moderate smoke observed in the immediate vicinity of that site. Libby 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