DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1700Z June 25, 2015
SMOKE Alaska/NW Canada: A copious amount of wildfires continue to be observed throughout most of central and southern Alaska with less wildfires currently seen in western Yukon. An area of light to dense remnant smoke from wildfires in central Alaska was seen across much of central Alaska into majority of Yukon and was moving to the east/southeast into Northwest Territories and western Nunavut. This area of remnant smoke has combined with an area of smoke that was produced from wildfires in northeastern Alberta and northwestern Saskatchewan. Central Canada/Northern Plains: An area of light to heavy density smoke was seen moving southeast through the Northwest Territories, western Nunavut, northeastern Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, western portion of Hudson Bay, western Ontario, northeast Dakota, most of Minnesota and western Wisconsin. 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. This area of smoke is moving SE across the Canadian border into the US along with the Alaskan smoke. Southwestern U.S. An area of light to heavy density remnant smoke was seen over the US southwest. The lighter smoke is heading east from California through Nevada, Utah Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas Missouri and Arkansas; although clouds that have developed from over the central states obscures the full extent of this area of light density smoke. Multiple wildfires continue to produce smoke in California and Arizona. A wildfire in San Bernardino county, called Lake Fire, produced a moderate to heavy density smoke plume that has traveled to southwestern Nevada. 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 majority of the east cost states as far as southwestern Pennsylvania. Due to the visual limitations of GOES-W, it is difficult to determine how far east the dust is traveling. -Kemal/Oegerle 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