DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0133Z 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 in central Alaska are producing 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, the 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. and some of the central U.S. through
southern and northward over southern California, 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