DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0300Z June 25, 2019
SMOKE:
Eastern Canada/Northeastern United States/Atlantic off the US East
Coast....An area of light to moderate density smoke primarily leftover
from fires over Alberta and the Yukon in northwestern Canada and eastern
Manitoba and western Ontario of Central Canada was visible extending
from Greenland curving to the southwest and south over the Labrador Sea
and portions of eastern Quebec and the Canadian Maritime provinces and
eventually to the southeast off the southeastern Canada and Northeastern
U.S. coast. Another area of smoke, with possible additional contributions
from a fire over south Florida, extended further southwest to offshore
the Southeast United States.
Northern Plains....An area of remnant light density smoke mainly from
the fires over Alberta spread across the Dakotas, central and southern
Minnesota, and Iowa.
Southern Canada...Another remnant batch of thin density smoke attributed
primarily to the wildfire activity in northern Alberta was seen moving to
the southeast and east across central and southern Alberta and southern
Saskatchewan to southwestern Manitoba.
Arizona/New Mexico/Texas...
Smoke from wildfires occurring in Arizona and New Mexico was visible
moving to the east covering much of central and eastern Arizona, the
southern two-thirds of New Mexico, and western Texas. It is not known how
far east the smoke extends over Texas now due to a large amount of cloud
cover. The thickest smoke was seen near and to the east of the Woodbury
Fire in central Arizona and the Pine Lodge Fire in central New Mexico.
Alaska...
Several wildfires over central and northeastern Alaska were emitting
moderately dense to thick smoke plumes which moved quickly to the
east. The wildfire in the Kenai Peninsula was still producing moderately
dense to thick smoke which covered portions of the peninsula. Some smoke
was visible as well with a few of the wildfires over western Alaska
though cloudiness did interfere some with smoke detection there.
Northern Canada....An area of light smoke, believed to be primarily from
the fires over Alberta and Yukon, was noted stretching from the Northwest
Territories eastward across Nunavut and extreme northern Canada before
fanning out over northeastern Quebec and the Labrador Sea.
DUST:
Caribbean Region/Gulf of Mexico/Bahamas/Southeastern U.S...
A pronounced area of Saharan dust was seen during the day stretching
across the southern Bahamas, Hispaniola, and the eastern part of Cuba,
and over Jamaica and the Caribbean to the Yucatan Peninsula. From there,
the dust spread to the north across much of the Gulf of Mexico likely
reaching close to or over coastal portions of the Gulf Coast from southern
and southeastern Texas to southern Louisiana. The dust also moved from
the Gulf to the northeast over much of Florida with the exception of far
southern Florida, central and eastern Georgia, South Carolina, and North
Carolina possibly extending into southern Virginia by late in the day.
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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