DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1556Z June 25, 2019
SMOKE:
Southeast Canada and Northwest Atlantic Ocean....A large area of of light
to moderate density smoke, from fires over northern Alberta and Yukon
was curving from portions of southeast Canada south into the northwest
Atlantic Ocean to the south of Bermuda and then curving back to the
northwest to just offshore New England.
Upper Midwest and Northern Plains....Areas of very light remnant smoke,
from the fires over northern Alberta and Yukon, extended from portions
of northern Indiana to Wisconsin and from western Minnesota northwest
to southern Saskatchewan.
Southern Plains, Southwest United States and Northern Mexico....A large
area of light smoke, from the large number of fires over western Mexico,
fires over New Mexico and fires over Arizona, extended through much of
the Southern Plains states west into southern Colorado, New Mexico and
Arizona and then extended south into western Mexico.
Alaska and Northern Canada....Fires over northern Alberta, Yukon and
Alaska have produced a large light to moderate density area of smoke
that extended across much of northern Canada into central Alaska.
DUST:
Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico, East Coast....A large area of Saharan Dust was
moving into portions of the eastern Caribbean Sea. Further to the west,
another area of blowing dust extending from the western Caribbean Sea
through the Yucatan Peninsula into the western Gulf of Mexico and then
curved through the northern Gulf of Mexico across Florida and offshore
the Southeast United States.
Hanna
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