DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0300Z July 4, 2019
SMOKE:
Alaska/Northwestern Canada...
Cloud cover over portions of Alaska and Northwestern Canada interfered
with smoke detection from satellite imagery though a number of wildfires
were still ongoing especially across east central Alaska. Some smoke
was noted over south central Alaska, especially near the ongoing fire
in the Kenai Peninsula where locally thick smoke was seen. Thick smoke
was also visible spreading to the southeast from one of the wildfires
in the Yukon province of Northwestern Canada.
Central and Southeastern Canada/Northeastern U.S...
Wildfires in eastern Manitoba and western Ontario continued to burn
emitting plumes of thick smoke which spread quickly to the east-northeast
during the day. Overall, a large plume of predominantly thin to moderate
density leftover smoke could be seen stretching from the Northwest
Territories southward over northeastern British Columbia before curving
to the southeast and east across Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba. The
smoke then eventually wrapped to the northeast and north over Hudson
Bay around an area of low pressure. Additional smoke of varying density
extended to the east across Ontario and Quebec as well as a portion of the
Northeastern U.S. Offshore, smoke was noted spreading to the southeast off
of the Northeast U.S. coast with another batch over the Labrador Sea and
southern Greenland. Much of the smoke east of Manitoba was likely mainly
from the wildfires in eastern Manitoba and western Ontario. Farther to
the west from Saskatchewan westward and northward to British Columbia
and the Northwest Territories, the source of the smoke was more likely
from the wildfires burning in Alaska and the Yukon of Northwestern Canada.
Northwestern U.S...
A mostly thin density aerosol which may be leftover smoke from the Alaska
and Northwest Canada wildfires was visible spreading to the south and
southwest from Southwestern Canada across Montana, Idaho, Washington,
Oregon, northern Nevada, and northern California. Some of the smoke was
also visible off the coast over the Pacific.
DUST:
Southern Caribbean Region/Western Gulf of Mexico...
The Saharan dust layer appeared to stretch from near or just south of
Puerto Rico westward across the Caribbean and over the Yucatan Peninsula
and portions of Central America. A piece of the dust also was visible
over the western and northwestern Gulf of Mexico possibly extending
inland over southern and southeastern Texas as well as southern Louisiana.
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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