DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0130 June 10, 2021
SMOKE:
Mexico/Central and Eastern CONUS/South-central Canada/northeastern
CONUS/North Atlantic…
An expansive region of light to moderate remnant smoke results from fire
activity over the past few days from across Mexico, the CONUS Rockies,
and southern Canada. Both the remnant layer of smoke and active smoke
plumes from fires in western Mexico was seen moving off toward the
west-southwest, eastern Mexico were seen moving north and west, western
CONUS were seen moving northeast, and southern Canada were seen moving
east. The largest wildfires in the Four Corners region were all producing
moderate to thick smoke.
Quebec/New Brunswick…
Continued fire activity across southern Quebec and central New Brunswick
was observed producing varying density smoke, with two producing thick
smoke. Smoke from these fires was moving east-southeast.
NW Territory…
A wildfire in the NW Territory was observed producing light to moderate
smoke. That was moving east.
California…
A thin ribbon of very light smoke was seen moving east across
California. The origin is not clear. Furthermore, some light smoke
plumes were observed in the Central Valley with smoke moving north in
the Sacramento Valley and smoke moving south in the SJV.
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.
Desert Southwest into the Great Basin…
Varying density blowing dust was observed being lofted from numerous
sources across the Mojave Desert and the Great Basin. The lofted dust
was being transported north as far north as southeastern Oregon and
southwestern Idaho.
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)
ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS REGARDING THIS PRODUCT SHOULD BE SENT TO:
SSDFireTeam@noaa.gov