DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1630Z June 26, 2017
SMOKE: Southwestern US/Northern Mexico... A large mass of thin density smoke covered a portion of the Southwestern US including much of Arizona, the southern half of Utah, southwestern Colorado, much of New Mexico and far western Texas. This smoke is due to several wildfires burning over Utah (including the Brian Head Fire in southwestern Utah) and Arizona with smoke possible contribution from fire activity over western and northwestern Mexico. More localized thicker smoke was located closer to the actual fires. Farther to the south, the aforementioned fire activity over western and northwestern Mexico was responsible for an area of thin to moderately dense smoke covering a portion of northern and northwestern Mexico. North Central US to the Great Lakes Region/Area from North Central to South Central Canada... Satellite imagery early this morning indicated a very large swath of thin to moderately dense smoke extending from the Canadian arctic southeastward to Saskatchewan and Manitoba and southward from there to the US-Canada border around North Dakota and northwestern Minnesota. The smoke the spread southeastward and eastward over the Upper Midwest to as far east as western New York and northwestern Pennsylvania. This smoke was attributed to ongoing wildfires over the Yukon and Northwest Territories and northern Alberta in northwestern Canada. Western Canada...An additional elongated area of thin density smoke leftover from the Yukon and Northwest Territories fires was seen stretching from the southwest portion of the Northwest Territories to off the coast of British Columbia. Northwestern Canada/Northeastern Alaska... Despite the presence of smoke cloudiness, patches of thin density smoke from the Yukon and Northwest Territories fires was visible over northeastern Alaska and the Yukon. AEROSOL: Alaska...An unknown thin density aerosol was seen moving eastward covering a region extending from the Arctic Ocean southward across much of central and south central Alaska. DUST: Puerto Rico/Caribbean... An area of possible Saharan Dust was moving across Puerto Rico and the eastern Caribbean per morning satellite imagery. 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