DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1700Z June 13, 2021
SMOKE:
Portions of the Southwestern, Central, and Eastern U.S./Southeastern
Canada/Gulf of Mexico/Western Atlantic/Northern and Northwestern
Mexico/Pacific off the west coast of Mexico…
A very large coverage of thin density smoke was visible this morning
stretching from the Pacific southwest of Baja across western and northern
Mexico, the Southwestern U.S., much of the Central U.S. with the exception
of the upper Mississippi Valley and the western Great Lakes region, and
extending east from there over a good portion of the Eastern U.S. with
the exception of the Carolinas and a portion of Georgia. The smoke also
was present across southeastern Ontario and southern and eastern Quebec
and the Canadian Maritimes. Thinner density smoke also was seen offshore
over parts of the western Atlantic off the coast of southeastern Canada,
the Northeastern U.S. coast, the Mid-Atlantic coast as well as off a
portion of the Southeast coast and over the northern Gulf of Mexico. The
northern portion of of this huge area of smoke across the Central and
Eastern U.S. and Southeastern Canada was likely due mainly to wildfires
burning in Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico while the more southern portion
of smoke across the Southwestern U.S., Mexico, and the eastern Pacific
was from a combination of the wildfires in the Southwestern U.S. and
significant fires burning in western Mexico. Within the very large
mass of thin density smoke were embedded thicker areas. One of these
areas covered eastern and southeastern Arizona and a good part of New
Mexico. This thicker area was mainly attributed to the Arizona and New
Mexico wildfires. Another batch of thicker smoke could be seen emanating
from the cluster of larger fires in western Mexico and spreading to
the west and southwest across western Mexico, the Gulf of California,
Baja, and over the eastern Pacific. More localized thicker smoke was
also present near the wildfires in Utah.
DUST:
Tropical Atlantic Ocean to the Yucatan Peninsula…
An area of Saharan dust was seen across much of the Caribbean region
from just west of Puerto Rico to the Yucatan Peninsula with a much larger
and somewhat thicker area covering a sizable portion of the tropical and
subtropical Atlantic east of the Caribbean islands to the African coast.
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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