DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0300Z July 8, 2019
SMOKE:
Alaska/Western and Northern Canada/Northwestern U.S...
Numerous wildfires scattered across Alaska and the Yukon in Northwestern
Canada continued to rage during the day resulting in an extremely large
area of smoke which stretched from the Bering Sea eastward over much
of Alaska, Northwestern and Western Canada, and offshore of southern
Alaska and western Canada over the Gulf of Alaska. The relatively thinner
density smoke also moved inland over the northern half of California and
up across portions of northern Nevada, Oregon, Washington, and western
Montana. Additional smoke also appeared on the edge of the satellite
field of view over far northern Canada which was spreading to the south
and southeast across Hudson Bay into Quebec Province. Some of this smoke
may be remnant from fires burning in Russia as well as from the Alaska
and Northwestern Canada fire activity with some possible contribution
from the fires burning in eastern Manitoba and western Ontario as
well. The thickest smoke in this huge region was seen in a west-east
elongated band across virtually the entire state of Alaska. More thick
smoke was noted over the Kenai Peninsula from an ongoing wildfire there
and over west central and southwestern Yukon Province and far northwest
British Columbia.
Central and Eastern Canada/Northern and Northeastern U.S...
Wildfires in eastern Manitoba and northwestern Ontario were responsible
for a very thick batch of smoke visible over eastern Manitoba, a good
portion of Ontario, and the Great Lakes Region including Lake Superior,
the U.P. of Michigan, northeastern Wisconsin, Lake Michigan, the northern
half of lower Michigan, and Lake Huron with the smoke gradually thinning
out into a narrow band extending to the east over Lake Ontario into
central New York state. Thinner density smoke from these wildfires
extended to the east across southeastern Canada and the Northeastern
U.S. and offshore over the Atlantic.
Bay of Campeche/Western Gulf of Mexicoo...
An area of thin density remnant smoke partly in part from oil rig flaring
in the Bay of Campeche and from fires in southeastern Mexico was noted
moving to the west over the Bay of Campeche and over the far western Gulf
of Mexico and inland over eastern Mexico just south of the southern tip
of Texas.
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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)
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SSDFireTeam@noaa.gov