DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0115Z July 06, 2019
SMOKE: Alaska... Several wildfires remain active throughout Alaska, including areas in and around the Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge and the Kenai Peninsula. Fires in the Yukon area were particularly active this afternoon releasing heavy smoke plumes towards the east and across the Canadian border. The Swan Lake fire in the Kenai Peninsula showed moderate-to-heavy density smoke dispersing towards the west and away from Anchorage. Canada/Northeastern U.S... Several wildfires were also observed across Canada stretching from western Yukon province to southeast Ontario. A large area of light-to-moderate density smoke covers much of central Canada, including pockets of heavy smoke concentration in western Yukon province, eastern Manitoba and central Ontario. Wildfires near the Manitoba-Ontario border were particularly active during the afternoon-early evening hours producing thick/towering smoke plumes blanketing western-central Ontario and extending to the southeast towards Lake Superior. The smoke transport was predominantly due east following the higher level atmospheric flow. A secondary area of detached smoke from previous day fire activity in Canada could also be found covering New England and extending over the Atlantic ocean for +1,000 miles. Northwestern U.S... Light density residual smoke likely linked to wildfires in Alaskan and northwestern Canada could be seen covering much of Washington and Oregon and reaching northern California. Mexico... Light-to-moderate density smoke from gas flaring activity in the Bay of Campeche was visible extending to the northwest for approximately 200 miles over the Gulf of Mexico. WS 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