DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0115Z July 29, 2019
SMOKE:
Alaska/Canada/Northern & Northeast U.S...
A smoke plume linked to long-range transport from Russian wildfires
could be seen stretching from the central Aleutians to eastern British
Columbia with a eastward flow. Cloud cover across much of central Alaska
and the western Canada prevented smoke identification in those areas,
with the exception of the northern tip of the Northwest Territories
where a large wildfire could be seen releasing heavy density smoke which
was spreading to the west-northwest towards the Beaufort Sea. Smoke of
predominantly light-to-moderate density and situated at or above 500mb
covers most of the Northwest Territories, eastern British Columbia,
southern Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba, extending eastward over
Ontario and southern-southeast Quebec. The same plume is seen covering
the northern U.S. including Washington, Ontario, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming,
Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, and continuing towards the northeast over
Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York and most of New England. That large
plume is trending eastward following the upper level atmospheric flow.
Oregon/Northern California/Idaho/Wyoming...
The "Milepost 97" fire in Oregon remained active releasing
moderate-to-heavy density smoke over much of southern Oregon and northern
California with slow dispersion towards the south-southeast. Previous
day smoke from that same fire has traveled eastward reaching southern
Idaho and central-northern Wyoming.
Arizona...
The Castle fire in northern Arizona remained active releasing heavy
density smoke impacting areas 100 miles east and west of the fire.
DUST:
Puerto Rico/Caribbean Sea/Hispaniola/Cuba...
A large of area of Saharan dust covers the majority of the southern
Caribbean Sea where it remains relatively stationary over the last 24h.
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