DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0100Z July 13, 2016
Currently: Wyoming/Colorado/Central Plains: Wildfires burning in Colorado and southern Wyoming are producing dense to very dense smoke moving east into parts of western Nebraska and Kansas border. Arizona/New Mexico Wildfires continue to burn over northern Arizona and southwest New Mexico producing moderately dense to dense smoke moving east and staying within state lines at this time. Quebec: Numerous wildfires burning in central and northern Quebec are producing mostly light to moderately dense smoke moving in multiple directions. Northern Canada: Light density smoke is visible through Northwest Territories, Nunavut and in central Hudson Bay moving eastward into Quebec. Heavy cloud coverage obscured the full extent of the smoke. DUST: Western Gulf of Mexico into the southern Plains: A broad area of Saharan dust continues to be seen this evening moving westward across the Caribbean Sea and the western/southern half of the Gulf of Mexico, including the entire Bay of Campeche. The dust then extends northward across much of central/western Texas/Oklahoma and into western/central Kansas. J Kibler 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