DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0145Z July 9, 2023
SMOKE: Canada/Pacific Ocean/U.S./Atlantic Ocean/Northern Mexico... Wildfire activity continued in Canada extending from the Yukon and Northwest Territories, British Columbia across the southern Canadian provinces to west central Quebec. The most concentrated wildfires were seen over west central Quebec, and over central and northeastern British Columbia, northern Alberta, and the southwest part of the Northwest Territories. Thin density smoke from these fires spread across much of Canada and the U.S. as well as northern Mexico including Baja, some of the northeastern Pacific off the southeast coastal portions of Alaska, western Canada, and the northwestern U.S., and over much of the northern and central Atlantic. Moderate to thick density smoke primarily from the larger concentration of wildfires in western and northwestern Canada was seen over portions of northwestern and western Canada and extended to the southeast over Montana through the Northern Plains and into Minnesota, northern Iowa and into the Great Lakes region and parts of southern Ontario. Also, the wildfires in the northern/eastern sections of the Northwest Territories produced a large area of very thick new smoke that moved toward the southwest and combined with the area of dense smoke over the southern Territories and northern British Columbia and Alberta. Very thick density smoke likely from wildfires in Manitoba was noted over south central Canada and northern Minnesota and north into central and eastern Ontario and into northwest Quebec. Farther to the east, thicker smoke from the fires in Quebec was present over central, west central, and northwestern Quebec. Embedded areas of moderate to thick density smoke were also visible over far southeastern Canada and extending off the Canadian Maritimes and over the northern Atlantic south of Greenland and extending to near the coast of Spain. Arizona... Several wildfires located in northern and northwestern Arizona including the larger Pilot Fire were responsible for a swath of generally thin to moderate density smoke which spread to the east and northeast over southeastern Utah and western/central Colorado. Northern Baja/Southern California: A wildfire in the northern section of Baja has produced an area of light to moderate density smoke that moved north into Southern California. Southeastern Texas… A fire near the coast of southeastern Texas to the east of East Bay was producing a thin to moderately dense smoke plume which moved to the northeast and across the Texas-Louisiana border into west central Louisiana DUST: Caribbean Region/Western Atlantic Ocean… A residual thin area of Saharan Dust was detected over a portion of the Caribbean Sea including Hispaniola and Cuba and extending north and northeast across the Bahamas. JK 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