DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1602Z July 30, 2019
SMOKE:
Alaska/Canada/Eastern U.S/North Atlantic/Greenland...
Remnant smoke associated with long-range transport from Russian wildfires
could be seen stretching across into Alaska and Canada. Cloud cover across
much of eastern Alaska, the Yukon, the Northwest Territory, and Ontario
made smoke detection difficult in those areas. A few larger wildfires
were observed emitting moderate smoke across the northern portions of the
Northwest Territories. Light density smoke 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 eastern U.S. including New
England, the Mid Atlantic, and the southeastern CONUS. Most of the smoke
was moving off toward the east.
Oregon/Northern California/Idaho/Montana...
The Milepost 97 fire in Oregon remained active emitting moderate-to-thick
smoke over much of southern Oregon and far northern California with
slow movement towards the north-northeast earlier today then towards the
east-southeast in the afternoon. Remnant smoke from yesterday's Milepost
97 smoke plume has moved east-northeastward reaching central Idaho and
western Montana.
Four Corners...
The Castle fire in northern Arizona has remained active this morning and
early afternoon but smoke was difficult to see due to cloud coverage in
the area.
DUST...
Texas/Western Gulf of Mexico/Bay of Campeche/Yucatan/Western Caribbean
A fairly large of area of Saharan dust covers the majority of the western
Caribbean, the Yucatan Peninsula, western Gulf of Mexico, and southeast
Texas. This area of Saharan dust has been moving around an area of high
pressure centered across the eastern Gulf of Mexico/southeastern CONUS.
Rodriguez
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