Thursday, June 30 2016

DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0300Z July 1, 2016

SMOKE:
Northwestern Canada to the Central US:
A huge area of thin density smoke attributed mainly to the wildfires
burning over portions of Canada's Yukon, Northwest Territories,
northern Alberta, and northern Saskatchewan was analyzed stretching
from northwestern Canada to the southeast over south central Canada and
over the north central US from Montana across a portion of the Northern
and Central Plains. Closer to the fire activity, an expanding mass
of moderately dense to thick smoke extended primarily from northern
Saskatchewan and northern Alberta northward over the Northwest
Territories.

Kansas/Oklahoma:
Seasonal fires over central and south central Kansas as well as north
central to west central Oklahoma resulted in patches of thin density
smoke in this region.

Alaska:
Similar to yesterday, a few fires were detected in west central and
central Alaska though limited information on the smoke extent and density
could be determined from satellite imagery due to cloudiness.

DUST:
Bay of Campeche:
The long lived area of Saharan dust was now over the Bay of Campeche
spreading west into mainland southeastern Mexico.

JS


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

 


Unless otherwise indicated:
  • Areas of smoke are analyzed using GOES-EAST and GOES-WEST Visible satellite imagery.
  • Only a general description of areas of smoke or significant smoke plumes will be analyzed.
  • A quantitative assessment of the density/amount of particulate or the vertical distribution is not included.
  • Widespread cloudiness may prevent the detection of smoke even from significant fires.