DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0300Z July 10, 2016
SMOKE: Canada: A broad area of mostly light density remnant smoke is observed stretching across a large swath of northern Canada from the northwest portion of the Northwest Territories east southeastward into central Nunavut and much of Hudson Bay into northern Quebec. Colorado and Wyoming: Two fires in Colorado (Beaver Creek and Cold Springs) were generating expansive smoke plumes that extended to the east and northeast into northeast Colorado and and far southeast Wyoming. The Beaver Creek fire in Jackson county had some moderate to dense smoke associated with it. DUST: Caribbean Sea and southern Gulf of Mexico: A broad area of Saharan dust continues to be seen this evening across the southwest half of the Gulf of Mexico, including the entire Bay of Campeche. The dust also covers portions of the western Caribbean. Nevada: An expansive area of light to moderate blowing dust was originating from the Carson Sink in western Nevada. The dust was moving to the east. Southern California/Southwest Arizona: A couple of areas of light blowing dust were detected in the desert areas of southern California and into southwest Arizona. One area was in the vicinity of the Salton Sea, another was south of Bishop California in Inyo county and a third moving across western Maricopa county in Arizona. Ruminski 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/Products/land/hms.html GIS: http://www.firedetect.noaa.gov/viewer.htm KML: http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/FIRE/kml.html ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS REGARDING THIS PRODUCT SHOULD BE SENT TO SSDFireTeam@noaa.gov