DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0331Z July 23, 2019
SMOKE:
Upper Midwest of the United States/Most of Canada/Alaska....The large
area of ongoing fires from northern Saskatchewan and the eastern portion
of the Northwest Territories extending west into Alaska was producing
a large area of moderate to high density smoke that was extending
from western Quebec west into the Upper Midwest of the United States
and western Ontario. The axis then arced northwest towards northern
Saskatchewan, northern Alberta, the Northwest Territories, Yukon and
through most of Alaska. A portion of this smoke plume also extended
from eastern Manitoba northeast to eastern Nunavut. The highest density
smoke within this large area of smoke extended from the upper Midwest of
the United States through eastern Manitoba into eastern Nunavut and then
west and northwest to the Northwest Territories and northern Alberta.
High density smoke also extended from the western Northwest Territories
west into eastern Alaska. A lighter area of smoke curved south and
southeastward from Alaska into the Northeast Pacific Ocean and then was
arcing back northeast towards the Pacific Northwest Coast.
Dust:
Western Caribbean Sea and the Southern Gulf of Mexico....An area of
Saharan Dust extended from the western Caribbean Sea west through the
Yucatan Peninsula into the southern Gulf of Mexico.
Hanna
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