DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 16000Z July 11, 2017
SMOKE NORTHERN NORTH AMERICA.. Wildfires throughout Alaska, the Yukon, the Northwest Territory, and British Columbia continue to burn, producing smoke that can be seen across much of northern North America, from Barrow, Alaska and the Beaufort Sea to off the eastern Newfoundland coast. The densest smoke is seen over southern British Columbia where one of the two large fire complexes resides, with a few embedded streams of moderately dense smoke. NEVADA / UTAH / WYOMING... Wildfires located in Northern Nevada are producing smoke that extends eastward across northeastern Nevada, northern Utah, and much of Wyoming. Some heavy density smoke was visible and remained attached to the fires in Nevada, with some remnant streams of heavy smoke near the leading edge of the smoke plume. CALIFORNIA... The Alamo fire is providing a fairly thin layer of smoke extending out over the Channel Islands and into the open Pacific while also extending out over the southern San Joaquin Valley and the mountain ranges of southern California. DUST CARIBBEAN... A Saharan Dust Layer can be observed over the Caribbean Sea south and east of a Honduras – Haiti line extending eastward to an Orinoco River Delta – Barbados – 100 miles northeast of Antigua line. This dust layer is moving westward. -Hosley 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