DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1610Z June 25, 2022
SMOKE: Central and Eastern United States, Northern Mexico and Southeastern Canada… 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 density smoke over much of the central and eastern United States, southeastern Canada and much of northern Mexico extending across the Baja and into the eastern Pacific Ocean. Within this region, an area of moderate density smoke, from a fire over north central Texas, was seen extending across southern Oklahoma. 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 southern Alaska to the northeast over central and eastern Alaska through northwestern and north central Canada and southeast through British Columbia, Alberta and Saskatchewan and into the north central United States. Within this area of smoke, there were several areas of moderate to high density smoke those being over the southern Northwest Territories, northern Alberta and northern Saskatchewan and also closer to the ongoing fires over central and southern Alaska. BLOWING DUST: Tropical Atlantic… An area of Saharan Dust was seen approaching the Eastern Islands of the Caribbean and Caribbean Sea. Hanna 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