DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1700Z 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 densest smoke was noted from the Northwest Territories westward into central Alaska, although moderate smoke was noted from northern Saskatchewan eastward into northern Ontario. 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. The smoke also extended westward into the Pacific off of southern California. Gaetano 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