DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1618Z June 9, 2021
SMOKE:
Arizona, New Mexico, Central/North-Central/South-Central U.S., Gulf of
Mexico/Mexico/Central America/Pacific south of Mexico...
The Mescal and Telegraph wildfire complexes in Southeastern Arizona and
the Doagy Fire in western New Mexico continue to emit light to moderate
density smoke that blankets much of the North-Central to south-Central
U.S., this smoke has combined with the ongoing seasonal fires in Mexico
and Central America. A large area of light to moderate density smoke
covering much of northern/southern/central Mexico, Central America,
a portion of the Pacific south of Mexico, the western Gulf of Mexico
remains in the area.
DUST:
Tropical Atlantic Ocean to the southeastern Caribbean Islands…
Thick Saharan Dust was observed extending from Africa across the tropical
Atlantic Ocean across the Lesser Antilles and into the western half
of the Caribbean Sea encroaching on Central America. This Saharan Dust
Layer was moving westward across the Caribbean.
Western CONUS...
The Mescal and Telegraph wildfire complexes in Southeastern Arizona
and the Doagy Fire in western New Mexico continued to emit moderate to
thick smoke. 4 other newer fires across western Colorado and northern
Utah were also producing thick smoke. Nearly all smoke emissions from
these wildfires was moving off toward the northeast.
South Central and Northeastern CONUS/southeastern Canada/northwestern
Atlantic…
An area of thin to moderate density remnant smoke was observe moving
east-northeastward from the St. Lawrence River Valley out into the North
Atlantic. A cyclone southeast of Greenland was starting to draw in some
of this smoke.
Active fires were also observed from central Manitoba into central
Quebec. The smoke from nearly all of these fires was moving off to the
east-southeast.
Northwest Territories…
A wildfire in the south-central Northwest Territories was observed
producing thick smoke that was first moving west-northwest, but almost
immediately moving north then east.
Mexico…
A handful of wildfires throughout northern Mexico were producing moderate
smoke that was moving off toward the northeast. Elsewhere in Mexico,
fire activity along the western coast of Mexico was observed producing
light to moderate smoke. Remnant smoke from previos days’ actvity
had made its way out a couple hundred miles westward into the Pacific
Ocean. Further remnant smoke was observed along the eastern coast of
Mexico and the western Gulf Of Mexico.
Southern California…
El Mirage Dry Lake Bed in southern California north of Los Angeles
produced a small plume of blowing dust that was observed moving eastward.
Hosley
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)
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SSDFireTeam@noaa.gov