DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 16045 June 26, 2015
SMOKE Alaska/Canada/North Central US: A large area of light to heavy smoke is visible throughout Canada and Alaska this morning. This smoke originates from the large amount of large wildfires across southwestern to east central Alaska, as well as contribution of the wildfires located in northwestern to Central Canada resulting in an very expansive plume of heavy smoke moving SE into the US. The heaviest area of smoke is visible in Alaska, moving SE into Yukon/NW Territories where it mixes with medium to heavy density smoke emitting from that region (NW Territories/Alberta/Saskatchewan). This smoke continues SE into Manitoba, western Ontario, and across the border into Minnesota and North Dakota. Medium smoke is visible in Yukon, NW Territoires, Nunavut, and spilling to Manitoba, Ontario, and the Hudson Bay. Lighter smoke is visible moving east through Ontario into Quebec, as well as SE into North Dakota, South Dakota, and Minnesota. Southwestern US: A large area of light to medium density smoke is visible this morning moving northward from several large wildfires located in Baja Mexico, California, and Arizona. Specifically, wildfires in northwestern Baja, the “Lake” wildfire located in San Bernardino County in southern California, and “Washington” wildfire south of Lake Tahoe in east central California are contributing the most smoke in the region. Due to the concentration of cloud cover in southern California, it is difficult to determine how much smoke is in the surrounding area of the Lake” wildfire. The thickest smoke was observed moving to the north from the Lake wildfire in San Bernardino County across north central California, as well as the wildfire located near the Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona. Lighter density smoke is visible moving north in NW Arizona, Nevada, Oregon, and NW Idaho. DUST Southeast US: A heavy plume of blowing Saharan dust is visible moving eastward through the southeast US affecting Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina as it moves offshore into the Atlantic Ocean. 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