DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0237Z July 18, 2019
SMOKE:
Alaska, Northern Territories, Northern and Central Canada...
Several large wildfires in Alaska and north central Canada continue to
produce moderate density smoke over a very broad area. Moderate density
smoke blankets much of the Alaska and could be seen blowing east into
northern territories of Canada. Few moderate density smoke plumes were
also visible extending from North Alberta and Saskatchewan this afternoon,
expanding northeast.
Four Corners Region...
A number of fires in Utah, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona were seen
producing a large area of light to moderate density smoke over the region
prior to cloud cover prohibiting later visibility in satellite imagery.
Northeastern Atlantic Ocean...
An area of light density smoke was visible off of the New England coast,
stretching from Nova Scotia south to North Carolina and extending
east-northeast across the ocean near the Azores.
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