DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0336Z June 28, 2019
SMOKE: Northern Plains....An area of light smoke, from fires over the Southwest United States, extended from western Wisconsin northwest through the Northern Plains into eastern Montana and southern Saskatchewan. Northern Canada/North Pacific/Northern California....An area of mostly light smoke, from the fires over Alberta, Yukon and Alaska, extended from portions of western Nunavut west through the Northwest Territories, northwest Alberta, northern British Columbia into the North Pacific Ocean. A broken band of smoke then curved back into portions of Northern California and then through northwest Montana, southern Alberta into western Saskatchewan. Alaska....An area of moderate to high density smoke, from the numerous ongoing fires over Alaska, extended over much of central Alaska. DUST: Western Gulf of Mexico and Western US Gulf Coast....An area of Saharan Dust extended over the Western Gulf of Mexico north into the western Gulf Coast 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