DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0110Z June 12, 2021
SMOKE: Most of the Central and Eastern United States, Eastern Canada, Mexico... An expansive area of light to moderate smoke, from the combination of wildfire activity across the western United States and fires over western Mexico over the past few weeks, was seen from portions of Quebec and Ontario of southeast Canada through most of the eastern, central and southwestern United States, western Mexico and extending offshore through the southern Baja and into the eastern Tropical Pacific Ocean. Included within this area were also a number of areas of moderate to localized high density smoke plumes near the ongoing wildfires. DUST: Tropical Atlantic Ocean to the Yucatan Peninsula… A large area of Saharan dust was seen extending through the Tropical Atlantic Ocean through most of the Caribbean Islands and extending west through the Caribbean sea to Central America, southeastern Mexico and the southern Gulf of Mexico. Hanna 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