DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0010Z June 22, 2020
SMOKE:
Southeastern Canada...
Light-to-moderate density smoke originating from a large wildfire in
southeastern Quebec is spreading east-southeastward across the Gulf of
St. Lawrence to south of Newfoundland.
Southwestern U.S. ...
Wildfires in northern and central-southeastern Arizona and western New
Mexico are producing moderate density smoke covering most of Arizona
(except for southwestern quadrant) and central-southern New Mexico. The
smoke is slowly moving towards the east and over northern Texas.
Mexico...
Several pockets of light-density smoke are seen spreading over western
Mexico as a result of scattered fire activity across the states of
Sinaloa, Nayarit, and Jalisco.
DUST:
Caribbean...
A very large and thick Saharan Air Layer (SAL) dust plume is currently
over the eastern Caribbean moving westward at approximately 40 miles per
hour. The plume had reached Puerto Rico earlier today, is now closing in
on the Dominican Republic. It is expected to continue on its westward
trajectory covering much of the Caribbean and extending into the Gulf
of Mexico in the next two days.
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