DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1545Z July 1, 2015
SMOKE Alaska to the Mid Atlantic: An unbroken area of moderately dense to dense smoke from the prolific number of wildfires over Alaska and central/northern Canada stretches across the width of Alaska and into Canada. The smoke covers nearly all of Canada from Hudson Bay to northern British Columbia and dives south into the central US, from northern Montana across North Dakota and into Minnesota where the smoke curves southeastward across the Great Lakes, Tennessee and Ohio Valleys and into the Southeast and Mid Atlantic states. The smoke also reaches back into eastern Oklahoma and southeast Kansas. DUST A broad area of Saharan dust was seen covering much of the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean. 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