DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0300Z June 19, 2019
SMOKE: Canada... Large wildfires continue to burn especially in northern Alberta resulting in smoke which covers much of the central and northern portions of Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba provinces as well as the central and southern part of the Northwest Territories and much of Nunavut. A band of the smoke also appeared to extend eastward over the northern part of Hudson Bay and off the far northeast coast of Canada though cloud cover there hindered smoke detection in satellite imagery. The Thickest smoke was located across the northern portions of Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba provinces as well as the southeast part of the Northwest Territories and southern Nunavut. Farther to the south, several wildfires in central Manitoba and western Ontario produced moderately dense to thick smoke which moved generally to the west and southwest during the day. Southwestern and South Central U.S... The Woodbury and Coldwater wildfires in central Arizona were both producing moderate to thick density smoke which moved to the east and northeast during the day. A much larger region of thinner density smoke attributed to these fires as well as to at least one wildfire in west central New Mexico and to additional fires in northwestern Mexico was present across roughly the eastern half of Arizona, much of New Mexico, northwestern Texas, and western and central Oklahoma. A smaller swath of thin density smoke possibly from the aforementioned fire activity was visible across far northeastern Texas, northern Louisiana, and far west central Mississippi. Alaska... The North River wildfire complex in western Alaska was emitting a plume of thick smoke which moved to the west off the coast and over the Bering Strait. The smoke then wrapped to the south and even to the southeast over the Bering Strait and back inland over southwestern Alaska around a low pressure circulation. JS Earlier This Morning... Western/Central Mexico... Widespread fire activity persists along western Mexico, northwestern Veracruz, and the eastern Yucatan Peninsula. Pockets of moderate density smoke could be seen from the visible satellite imagery. Light density smoke from these fires was stretching offshore to the southwest over the Pacific and northward into portions of Arizona and New Mexico. YL 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/data/land/fire/currenthms.jpg GIS: ftp://satpsanone.nesdis.noaa.gov/FIRE/HMS/GIS/ KML: http://www.ospo.noaa.gov/data/land/fire/fire.kml (fire) http://www.ospo.noaa.gov/data/land/fire/smoke.kml (smoke) ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS REGARDING THIS PRODUCT SHOULD BE SENT TO: SSDFireTeam@noaa.gov