DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0230Z June 23, 2020
SMOKE:
Southwestern and South Central U.S…
The ongoing wildfires in the Southwestern U.S. continued to burn and were
responsible for a broad area of moderate to thick density smoke which
covered a good portion of Arizona and New Mexico before gradually thinning
out over portions of Oklahoma and Texas. The thickest smoke appeared
to be over the southern half of Arizona and southern New Mexico. The
Mangum, Bush, Bighorn, and Bringham Fires in Arizona and the Tadpole,
Good, and Vics Peak Fires in southwestern New Mexico remained active
smoke producers.
Eastern U.S…
Some residual smoke may be present over portions of the Eastern U.S. from
the eastern Great Lakes Region southward through the Ohio Valley and
Carolinas to off the Mid-Atlantic coast though cloud cover made smoke
detection difficult and other aerosols in the atmosphere made it difficult
to differentiate between these aerosols and smoke where there was less
cloud cover.
Southeastern Canada…
A couple of wildfire complexes in southeastern Quebec were producing
smoke of varying density which moved to the east and southeast over
portions of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland and out over
the Atlantic. Cloudiness in this region though did interfere with more
precise information on the extent and density of the smoke.
JS
DUST:
Caribbean...
A very large and thick Saharan Air Layer (SAL) dust plume covers much
of the
Caribbean Sea with the dust also having overspread Puerto Rico,
Hispaniola, Jamaica, and western Cuba. The leading edge of the plume is
nearing the northeastern part of Central America as well as the Yucatan
Peninsula. This plume is moving westward and will likely overspread
the rest Cuba in the next day and eventually move into the Gulf of
Mexico. The dust extends all the way across the Atlantic with more now
over the western Saharan Desert moving off into the eastern Atlantic.
Konon/JS
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