DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0300Z June 25, 2015
SMOKE Alaska/Yukon/British Columbia: A copious amount of wildfires continue to be observed throughout most of central and southwestern Alaska with less wildfires currently seen in western Yukon. Several moderate to heavy density smoke plumes were seen in southwestern Alaska and were moving to the southeast. An area of moderate to dense remnant smoke from wildfires in central Alaska was seen across much of central Alaska into central Yukon and was moving to the east/southeast into the British Columbia and Northwest Territories. This area of remnant smoke has combined with an area of smoke that was produced from wildfires over the Northwest Territories. Central Canada/Northern Plains: An area of light to moderate density smoke was seen moving southeast from the Northwest Territories, Northern Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, southwestern portion of Hudson Bay, western Ontario, and northern Minnesota. An embedded band of moderate to heavy density remnant smoke was seen over central Saskatchewan and central Manitoba. Wildfires southeast of Great Slave Lake, Northern Alberta, and northern Saskatchewan continue to produce moderate to dense smoke plumes that have contributed to these areas of smoke. Southwestern U.S. An area of light density remnant smoke was seen over the US southwest; although clouds that have developed from convection over the four corner states obscures the full extent of this area of light density smoke. Multiple wildfires continue to produce smoke in California, Arizona and Baja. A wildfire in San Bernardino county, called Lake Fire, produced a moderate to heavy density smoke plume that has traveled to the northeast as far as Clark county Nevada. A wildfire in Baja has produced a heavy density smoke plume that has extended into southern California. DUST Southeastern U.S: An expansive area of Saharan dust remains over much of the southeastern U.S, extending inland as far as eastern Texas/Oklahoma/eastern Kansas/Missouri, and its northern extent seen along the eastern seaboard through the South Carolina/North Carolina coasts. -Cronin 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