DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1940Z July 05, 2019
SMOKE:
Alaska...
Several wildfires remain active throughout Alaska, especially in eastern
Alaska and western Yukon province. Mostly light density smoke could be
observed near the western Alaskan fires with general transport towards
the WSW. Medium density smoke with ENE movement was apparent over the
easternmost fires. Widespread cloud coverage over Canada prevented
delineation of smoke plumes across much of the western Yukon province
region. Heavy smoke from the Swan Lake fire in the Kenai Peninsula is
relatively stationary, remaining over the fires.
Central and Southeastern Canada...
Scattered fire activity across central-northern Alberta, central-southern
Saskatchewan and Manitoba, and western Ontario were contributing to
a large area of medium to heavy-density smoke stretching from eastern
Manitoba southeast into western Ontario and north-central U.S. Fires in
western Ontario are releasing heavy smoke towards the east impacting much
of central-northern Ontario. Another area consisting of light-to-moderate
density smoke originating from previous days fire emissions in central
Canada could also be seen covering much of north-central U.S. and all of
Canada into the northern territories, and then extending northeasterly
over southern Greenland and southeasterly over the Atlantic ocean.
Northwestern U.S...
Light-to-moderate density residual smoke likely linked to wildfires in
Alaskan and northwestern Canada could be seen covering much of Washington
and northwestern Oregon.
Mexico...
Medium density smoke from rigs in the Bay of Campeche was visible
extending to the northwest over the Gulf of Mexico.
JL
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