DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1700 June 12, 2021
SMOKE:
Central/North-Central/South-Central U.S., South-Central Canada, Mexico,
Pacific south 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 and then
west across the tropical north Eastern Pacific. Smoke across much of
the central Rockies, eastern CONUS and Maritime Canada was moving off
toward the east or east-northeast. Another ribbon of light remnant smoke,
perhaps cross-polar transport from Siberian wildfires, was observed
moving south then southeast across Quebec and nearly merging with the
larger area of smoke over Maritime Canada.
Active fires were observed emitting smoke across New Mexico, Arizona, and
Utah. Many of the active smoke plumes were moving northeast at sunrise,
then shifted to moving north-northeast.
DUST:
Tropical Atlantic Ocean to the Yucatan Peninsula…
Thick Saharan Dust was observed extending from Africa across the tropical
Atlantic Ocean, the Lesser Antilles, and the Caribbean Sea to the Yucatan
Peninsula. Some of the dust is now also observed north of the Greater
Antilles moving northwestward toward the Bahamas.
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