DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0230Z June 24, 2020
SMOKE:
South Central and Southwestern United States/Northern Mexico….
A broad area of varying density smoke attributed to the ongoing wildfires
burning in the Southwestern U.S. was seen across Arizona, New Mexico,
western and southern Texas, and northern Mexico. Moderately dense smoke
stretched from central and southern Arizona to southwestern Mexico,
northern Mexico, and far western Texas while the thickest smoke was
located over east central and southeastern Arizona especially near and to
the north and east of the Bighorn Fire in southeastern Arizona. The Bush
Fire in Arizona also appeared to be producing significant smoke along
with a new fire north of Phoenix while the Mangum and Bringham Fires in
Arizona and the Tad Pole, Good, and Vics Peak Fires in southwestern New
Mexico were mostly obscured by cloud cover limiting smoke information
from satellite imagery.
Western Mexico…
Seasonal fires along western Mexico resulted in mainly thin density
smoke over that region which also extended off the west coast of Mexico
and over the Pacific
DUST:
Caribbean Sea…
The massive dense Saharan dust cloud continues to gradually spread
farther to the west with virtually all of the Caribbean Sea and the
islands of Puerto Rico, Hispaniola, Jamaica, and Cuba now covered by
the cloud which also extends over the southern Bahamas, Central America,
and the Yucatan Peninsula and possibly a portion of the Bay of Campeche
and the far southern Gulf of Mexico.
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