DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0102Z June 16, 2021
SMOKE:
Southern and Western Montana...
Two new wildfires in southern and western Montana are producing a massive
amount of mostly moderate to heavy density smoke moving northeast across
across the state towards southern Canada.
Alaska
Four wildfires around central Montana are producing mostly light to heavy
density smoke and the plumes were moving mostly to the north/northeast.
Portions of the Southwestern, Western, Central, Southeastern, and
Eastern U.S./Southwestern Canada/Far western Atlantic/Northern Gulf of
Mexico/Northern and Northwestern Mexico/Pacific off the west coast of
Mexico and southern California...
The enormous area of thin to moderate density smoke attributed primarily
to ongoing wildfires burning mainly in western Mexico, Arizona, Utah, New
Mexico, and stretching from off the coast of western Mexico and southern
California inland across the Southwestern U.S. and northward from there
over the Rocky Mountain region all the way up into southern Alberta and
southern Saskatchewan in southwestern Canada. The smoke also covered much
of the Central and Southeastern U.S. and along and off the Mid-Atlantic
coast and coastal areas of New York and southern New England, as well
as the northern Gulf of Mexico. The band of aerosol across the South
Central and Southeastern U.S. from Texas across the Gulf coast region
to the eastern Carolinas was a bit more concentrated in density though
some of this aerosol, in addition to thinner density smoke, was believed
to be composed of other atmospheric pollutants pooled along a frontal
boundary. Portions of the North Central and Northeast southward into
the Ohio Valley region appeared to be relatively smoke free. Embedded
within this large mass of thin density smoke were areas of thicker
density smoke which were visible over northwestern Mexico including
Baja and off the west coast of Baja. Thicker smoke also extended across
much of the Southwestern U.S. through southern and northward over Utah,
western Colorado, southwestern South Dakota, and western Nebraska.
DUST:
Tropical Atlantic Ocean to the Eastern Caribbean Islands...
The western and leading portion of a very large mass of Saharan dust
was seen spreading to the west across Puerto Rico and Hispaniola. The
dust extended well to the east across a good portion of the tropical
and subtropical eastern Atlantic to western Africa. The earlier area
of Saharan dust which was located farther to the west in the western
Caribbean, Bahamas, Gulf of Mexico and eastern Mexico was no longer
visible at least in part due to cloudiness over this region.
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