DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0300Z June 22, 2015
SMOKE Alaska/Yukon/British Columbia: A large number of wildfires burning across much of Alaska and into western Yukon continue to produce a broad area of smoke over most of Alaska and the adjoining eastern Bering Sea and extending east through western Yukon and south to northwest British Columbia. The smoke is also being pulled across Alberta and linking up with an area of smoke stretching across central Canada as described below. Central Canada: A broad area of light density smoke extends from Alberta across central Canada and into Ontario. The smoke is a combination of remnant smoke moving down from Alaska as well as persistent fires across Alberta and Saskatchewan. DUST Gulf of Mexico/South-central US: A large area of light to moderate Saharan dust remains over the western Gulf of Mexico and extends into Texas and Louisiana. The dust continues to move in across the Caribbean across the Yucatan Peninsula before turning northward into the western Gulf of Mexico. Liddick 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