DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0303Z July 26, 2019
SMOKE:
Alaska/Canada/Central and Eastern United States...
The widespread ongoing fires over Alaska, Northwestern and North
Central Canada continued to produce a very large area of smoke that
extended across much of the eastern and central United States, central
and northwestern Canada and Alaska. The densest areas of smoke within
this area were over the upper Midwest of the United States extending
north into eastern Ontario and also over portions of northeast Alaska.
Moderate density smoke extended from northern Saskatchewan, northern
Alberta and the southern Northwest Territories.
Pacific Northwest...
Fires in south central Washington, western Oregon and central Idaho were
producing heavy smoke generally tracking eastward. Additional areas
of medium density smoke were seen extending farther from the same fires
beyond the scope of the heavy density smoke. Additional areas of light
density smoke were also scattered throughout the pacific northwest.
Central Plains...
Fires throughout the central plains have contributed to multiple plumes
of light density smoke throughout Kansas and Oklahoma and eastern Texas.
An additional area of light density smoke remains draped over the eastern
most portion near the Mississippi River.
DUST:
Caribbean and Central America...
An area of Saharan Dust was moving towards the eastern Caribbean Islands.
Further to the west, another area of Saharan Dust was in the western
Caribbean moving into portions of Central America.
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