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