DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1700Z June 22, 2016
SMOKE: Central US: Wildfires in the southwestern US are responsible for an expansive area of light density remnant smoke that is observed this morning in satellite imagery stretching over the central US. Smoke is seen stretching over Arizona, Utah, Colorado, southern Wyoming, Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, and Arkansas. Canada An area of light-density remnant smoke is observed in satellite over several Canadian territories this morning including Yukon, Northern Territories and southern Nunavut, as well as northern British Columbia and Alberta, the northern half of Saskatchewan, nearly all of Manitoba, and far western Ontario. This area of smoke likely originated from wildfire activity over central Alaska with most of the smoke coming from two wildfires southwest of Great Bear Lake in the Northwest Territories. DUST: Atlantic/Caribbean: Some thin density aerosol which may be Saharan dust was seen over a portion of the Atlantic south of the Bahamas extending over Cuba and the Caribbean to the Yucatan. Ramirez 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