Tuesday, July 11, 2017

DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0500Z July 12, 2017

SMOKE

Alaska and Canada..
Wildfires continue to rage across portions of northeast Alaska, the
Yukon,  Northwest Territories, and British Columbia. The smoke from
these large blazes covers most of Alaska and significant portions of
western and central Canada. The most dense smoke was seen from northern
Yukon westward across northern and central Alaska and over much of the
southern half of British Columbia.

California to the Great Basin...
Smoke from the actively burning wildfires along with remnant smoke from
several days of burning covers a large portion of the southern half of
California into southern and eastern Nevada, a small part of northwest
Arizona into Utah, southern Wyoming and northwest Colorado. The full and
exact extent of the smoke could not be discerned due to extensive cloud
cover – especially over Utah, Wyoming and Colorado – from seasonal
monsoon rains. The smoke also extended westward into the Pacific off of
southern California.

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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.