DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1545Z June 27, 2017
SMOKE: Area from Wyoming to the Southwestern US... A significant area of thin density smoke attributed to a number of wildfires over the Western and Southwestern US could be seen this morning stretching from Wyoming southward over a good portion of Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico. Within this large area of thin density smoke was a region of moderately dense to thick smoke affecting southern and eastern Utah, southern Wyoming, western Colorado, and northern and central New Mexico. Much of the thicker smoke was due to the Brian Head Fire in southwestern Utah. Southern California/Western Arizona... A stripe of thin density smoke was visible moving east over interior southern California over western Arizona. This particular patch of smoke was likely due to wildfire activity over southern California. Northern Nevada/Southern Idaho... A relatively small patch of smoke was seen moving east across southern Idaho and far northern Nevada. It is believed to be from some of the regional fire activity in southern Idaho and northern Nevada though it is possible that some remnant blowing dust from last evening which originated from the Carson Sink in western Nevada may be involved. North Central US/South Central Canada... Leftover mainly thin density smoke from recent wildfire activity over northwestern Canada was visible this morning moving to the southeast impacting southwestern Ontario, much of Minnesota, northern Iowa, Wisconsin, and the western part of Michigan's upper peninsula and Lake Superior. Alaska and Northwestern Canada... A large area of mainly thin density smoke covered a portion of central and eastern Alaska and much of the Yukon in Northwestern Canada. This smoke is from recent wildfire activity over Northwestern Canada. North Central to South Central Canada... An elongated swath of thin density smoke from recent wildfire activity over northwestern Canada was seen stretching from western Nunavut and the eastern portion of the Northwest Territories southeastward over northern Saskatchewan, central Manitoba, and into northwestern Ontario. British Columbia... An area of very thin density leftover smoke also attributed to the recent wildfire activity over Northwestern Canada was located over southern British Columbia. AEROSOL... Central and South Central US... A region of aerosol which may contain some remnant smoke from the Western and Southwestern US wildfires was visible stretching from South Dakota to central Texas. DUST... Puerto Rico/Caribbean... A large area of Saharan Dust was visible spreading westward across the Atlantic roughly south of 20N and over the Windward and Leeward Islands, Puerto Rico, Hispaniola, and the eastern Caribbean. 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