DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1745Z July 19, 2016

SMOKE:
West and Central Canada/Great Lakes:
Remnant light density smoke is seen from fires in western Canada  from
central British Columbia, northern Alberta/Saskatchewan/Manitoba, most
of Ontario and southwestern Quebec, down to the Great Lakes region and
into northeastern Wisconsin and majority of northern Michigan. The full
extent of smoke is unknown due to some cloud coverage.

Alaska:
An area of light density remnant smoke was observed in the Gulf of Alaska
moving to the southeast from south-central Alaska where it originated
from wildfires.  Wildfires continue to burn producing light density smoke.

Wyoming:
A small area of light density remnant smoke was detected in northeastern
Wyoming/southeastern Montana/central South Dakota/western North Dakota.

DUST:
Caribbean Sea/Puerto Rico:
An area of Saharan dust could be seen in-between cloud cover moving
west over the central/western Caribbean Sea. Another area of Saharan
dust was seen to the northeast traveling over Puerto Rico and moving
more west-northwest towards the Bahamas.

Central and Southern Plains/Midwest:
An area of Saharan dust was seen spanning from eastern New Mexico across
the Southern/Central Plains into the Midwest and was primarily traveling
to the north.


-Kemal

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.