DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0100Z July 31, 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 Alaska and Canada. A few larger wildfires
were observed emitting moderate smoke across the northern portions of
the Northwest Territories and Alaska. Light density smoke covers most
of Canada with the exception of Quebec, where cloud cover may obscure
smoke detection. More smoke of Russian origin is seen covering portions
New England and the Mid Atlantic extending out across the Atlantic. 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. The Tucker fire in northeastern
California has also contributed minor amounts of smoke today. Remnant
smoke from yesterday's Milepost 97 and Tucker fire smoke plume has moved
east-northeastward reaching central Idaho and western Montana.
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.
Hosley
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