DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0100Z July 5, 2022
SMOKE: Western/Northern/Southern Canada, Central and Northern and Central U.S., Alaska: An expansive area of varying density smoke was observed today, similar to the past couple of days, extending from Alaska to eastern Canada. The heaviest smoke exists over northern and central Alaska, where much of the parent activity is. In addition to that activity, fires across Northwest Territory, northeastern Alberta, and northwestern Saskatchewan were producing moderate to thick smoke that was moving westward to northwestward. As for remnant smoke...the stream is moving south over northern Canada. The smoke then moves across British Columbia, where the jet stream is moving the smoke eastward across southern Alberta, southern Saskatchewan southern Manitoba, and southern Ontario. An area of remnant smoke was also noted across the North Atlantic. Central Sierras… A recently ignited wildfire in the Central Sierras was observed producing thick smoke. This smoke was moving north, west and southwest of Lake Tahoe. DUST: Northwestern Arizona… Blowing dust was observed being transported northeastward from the Red Lake dry lake bed in northwestern Arizona. North-central Utah… An unnamed source central Utah west of Lake Utah was producing a small plume of dust moving north-northeast over Salt Lake City. 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