DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0038Z June 15, 2021
SMOKE:
Portions of the Southwestern, Central, and Eastern U.S./Extreme
Southeastern Canada/Gulf of Mexico/Northern and Northwestern
Mexico/Pacific off the west coast of Mexico...
The very large area of mainly thin density smoke was visible covering
much of northern and northwestern Mexico, and across the U.S. from the
Southwest and Rockies eastward to off the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast
coastal regions. The smoke also appeared over the northern Gulf of
Mexico and over Baja and the eastern Pacific to the west and southwest
of Baja. Within this large mass of thinner density smoke were thicker
areas which included portions of Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah,
Idaho, and Wyoming. Another relatively thicker batch of smoke was located
over northwestern Mexico, the Gulf of California, Baja, and just west
of Baja. Much of the northern and eastern portion of the huge area of
thinner density smoke across the U.S. and the thicker smoke over the
Southwestern U.S. and Rocky Mountain region was mainly due to larger
wildfires burning especially in Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah. The smoke
over Mexico, the Gulf of California, Baja, and the eastern Pacific was
primarily due to the batch of larger fires in western Mexico. However,
some of the smoke from the Mexico fires was being transported to the
north and northeast and may also now be contributing to some of the
smoke especially in the Southwestern U.S.
DUST:
Tropical Atlantic Ocean to the southeastern Caribbean Islands...
Although most of the Caribbean was cloud covered as night approached
some thick Saharan Dust could still be 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.
Eglin
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