DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0200Z July 2, 2016
SMOKE: California: Several wildfires were seen emitting smoke in California including the wildfire named Pine in Ventura county, the Erskine fire in the southern portion of the Sierra Nevada mountains and Trailhead in El Dorado county California. The Pine fire in southern California was producing a light to moderate density smoke plume which spread to the north. The Erskine fire was producing a light to moderate density smoke plume to the east. Finally the Trailhead fire in the Sierra foothills was emitting a light to heavy density smoke plume to the northeast. Northwestern and Central Canada: A huge area of thin density remnant smoke attributed mainly to wildfires burning over portions of central Canada can be seen stretching across southeast Northwest Territory into Nunavut, south across northeast/northern Alberta, into northern and central Saskatchewan/Manitoba. The heaviest remnant smoke is seen across portions of northeast Alberta, northwest Saskatchewan and south central Northwest Territory. A myriad of light to heavy density smoke plumes associated with wildfires in northern Saskatchewan, northeast Alberta and southeast of Great Slave lake in the Northwest Territories were primarily traveling the north. DUST: Gulf of Mexico/Texas An area of Saharan dust was seen entering into southern Texas from the Gulf of Mexico and could be seen throughout of the southern and western portions of the Gulf of Mexico. -Cronin 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