DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0300Z June 20, 2019
SMOKE:
Canada...
Large wildfires continue to burn especially in northern Alberta
resulting in smoke which covers much of central and northern Canada
extending all the way from British Columbia and the Yukon near the Alaska
border eastward over Hudson Bay to as far east as extreme northeastern
Canada. The thickest smoke blanketed the northern portions of Alberta,
Saskatchewan, and Manitoba provinces as well as far northeastern British
Columbia, the eastern Yukon, and much of the Northwest Territories and
Nunavut. Smoke of thin to moderate density also appeared to spread to the
southwest and south off the coast of British Columbia with a trajectory
which will likely take the smoke over Vancouver Island and possibly
eventually over the Pacific Northwest. Over south central Canada, several
wildfires over east central Manitoba and far west central Ontario produced
moderately dense to thick smoke which moved to the west during the day.
Southwestern and South Central U.S...
Several wildfires over north central and central Arizona along with at
least a couple in west central and central New Mexico were responsible for
a large area of smoke which generally spread to the east covering a good
portion of Arizona and New Mexico along with northern and northwestern
Texas, and central and southern Oklahoma. The thickest smoke was mainly
associated with the larger wildfires over north central and central
Arizona and generally affecting this region. Some contribution of smoke
from fires in northwestern Mexico may also be occurring especially over
the southern extent of the larger area of smoke across the Southwestern
U.S.
Alaska...
The North River wildfire complex in western Alaska was emitting a plume
of thick smoke which moved to the west off the west coast of Alaska
and over the Bering Strait. From there, the smoke then curved to the
north, northeast, and eventually even to the east and back inland over
northwestern Alaska.
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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/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