DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1602Z August 2, 2019
SMOKE:
Alaska/Canada/Northern Plains/Great Lakes...
A large area of remnant smoke from Russian wildfires were moving across
northern Canada that extended across Alaska, Canada, the Great Lakes,
and the North Atlantic. Cloud cover across much of Alaska and portions
of central Canada may obscure any smoke plumes across these areas. The
heaviest smoke was located across the Northwest Territories, and from
an intense and persistent wildfire across the northwestern Northwest
Territories. The smoke from this fire, along with a number of other
fires across the Northwest Territories, was observed moving northeast. The
large area of remnant smoke was moving generally east.
Northwest US...
The Milepost 97, the Left Hand, and the Devore Creek fires, along with
another unnamed fire in northwestern Oregon, were all producing light to
moderately dense smoke plumes. These smoke plumes were observed moving
north to northeastward. Remnant smoke was also noted extending from
around the Milepost 97 Fire northeastward into southern Canada, where it
appeared to be merging with the large area of remnant smoke noted above.
DUST:
Eastern Caribbean...
A thin region of Saharan dust was observed across the eastern Caribbean
and the area of the Atlantic Ocean north of the Caribbean. This area
of Saharan dust was slowly moving off toward the west into the central
Caribbean.
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