DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0230Z June 21, 2020
SMOKE:
Southeastern U.S./Ohio and Tennessee Valley Regions/Eastern Great Lakes
Region/Far Northeastern U.S./Southeastern Canada…
A large leftover area of mainly thin density smoke attributed primarily
to the ongoing wildfires in the Southwestern U.S. was visible stretching
from the far northern Gulf of Mexico over the Southeastern U.S., the
Tennessee and Ohio Valley Regions, the eastern Great Lakes Region,
southeastern Canada, and northern New England. In addition, a wildfire
in southeastern Quebec continued to produce smoke which moved generally
to the east and southeast over New Brunswick, the Gulf of St Lawrence,
Newfoundland, and off the coast over the northern Atlantic though
cloud cover closer to the wildfire prevented much in the way of density
information from satellite imagery. Within this band of smoke from this
wildfire was a thicker area extending from around Prince Edward Island
to the east and southeast passing just south of Newfoundland. Another
wildfire located just to the west of the northern tip of Maine was
emitting moderately dense to thick smoke which moved to the southwest
paralleling the northwestern Maine-southeastern Canada border.
Area from the Southwestern U.S. to the Central and South Central U.S…
More moderately dense to thick smoke was seen emanating from the Mangum,
Bush, Bighorn, and Bringham Fires in Arizona and the Good, Tadpole,
and Vics Peak Fires in southwestern New Mexico with moderate to thick
density smoke covering much of central and eastern Arizona and western
and central New Mexico. The smoke gradually thinned out in density as
it spread eastward over the Central and South Central U.S.
DUST:
Atlantic East of Puerto Rico…
The leading edge of the thinner density Saharan dust which was very
near or over the Leeward/Windward Islands and possibly Puerto Rico
yesterday was visible again late in the day over Puerto Rico and moving
into Hispaniola as well as much of the Caribbean. Farther to the east,
the large rather thick mass of Saharan dust could still be seen over
the Atlantic east of the Windward/Leeward Islands
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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