DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0300Z June 25, 2022
SMOKE: Eastern North America… A combination of active wildfire and agricultural burning activity, coupled with remnant smoke from similar activity over the past few days and weeks, has allowed a large area of light to moderate density smoke to linger over parts of Canada in the immediate border region with the CONUS, the eastern half of the CONUS, the Gulf of Mexico, northeastern Mexico, and the Atlantic just off the US East Coast. The thickest smoke in the layer resides from over Florida westward across the Gulf of Mexico and northward into the ArkLaTex and Mississippi Valley. Within the large, mainly lofted and remnant layer, a persistent fire over north-central Texas was observed emitting quite thick smoke this afternoon that was extending northward into far southern Oklahoma. Another fire in northwestern Oklahoma was producing moderate smoke that was initially moving northeastward but very quickly curls around toward the east-southeast as the smoke plume rises. Further, lighter agricultural smoke plumes were also seen across the Mid-Mississippi Valley and North Carolina. Alaska and Canada…. A large area of light to moderate density smoke, attributed mainly to wildfires burning in portions of Alaska and northwestern Canada was visible today stretching from the Gulf of Alaska and southern Alaska to the northeast over central and eastern Alaska through northern and northeastern Canada. Within this area of smoke, there were several areas of moderate density smoke those being over most of the Northwest Territories, northern British Columbia and northern Alberta and also closer to the ongoing fires over central and southern Alaska. Thick smoke production was noted across south-central Alaska. BLOWING DUST: Tropical Atlantic… An area of Saharan Dust was observed encroaching upon the Windward Islands of the Caribbean. The dust was moving off to the west. Hosley 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