Friday, June 11, 2021

DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1700 June 11, 2021


SMOKE:
West-central CONUS, central CONUS, southern Ontario, northeastern CONUS,
western and northern Mexico, Pacific southwest of Mexico...
An expansive area of light to moderate smoke is the result of a
combination of wildfire activity across the western CONUS and rampant
agricultural burning in western Mexico over the past few weeks. Smoke
off the western coast of Mexico was moving west-southwest, while smoke
across northern Mexico and the CONUS was generally moving eastward. Active
emissions were also observed from the ongoing wildfire activity from
Wyoming to Northern Chihuahua, with movement predominantly forced by
local terrain flows in the morning. Once emissions get lifted enough,
they are moving off toward the east-northeast.

Quebec and the Maritime Provinces...
Remnant smoke from fires across southern Quebec was seen across New
Brunswick and from southeastern Quebec across northern Nova Scotia into
the Atlantic Ocean south of Newfoundland.

DUST:
Tropical Atlantic Ocean to the southeastern Caribbean Islands…
Thick Saharan Dust was observed blanketing the tropical Atlantic Ocean,
the Lesser Antilles and the Caribbean Sea. The leading edge of this
layer is obscured by cloud cover, but could be as far west as the Yucatan
Peninsula or the Bay of Campeche. This Saharan Dust Layer was seen moving
westward to west-northwestward across the Caribbean.

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

 


Unless otherwise indicated:
  • Areas of smoke are analyzed using GOES-EAST and GOES-WEST Visible satellite imagery.
  • Only a general description of areas of smoke or significant smoke plumes will be analyzed.
  • A quantitative assessment of the density/amount of particulate or the vertical distribution is not included.
  • Widespread cloudiness may prevent the detection of smoke even from significant fires.