DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1715Z June 16, 2021
SMOKE: CONUS/Baja California/Northern Mexico… A very large area of predominantly light smoke currently covers the majority of the Contiguous United States, with the exception of the northwestern, Great Lakes and New England regions. The smoke originates from wide spread fire activity across the southeastern, central and southwestern U.S., in addition to northwestern Mexico. Pockets of moderate-density smoke can be seen over the Dakotas traveling eastward, and over eastern Colorado, western Oklahoma and northern Texas where the smoke is moving toward the south. The Johnson Fire in Gila National Forest/western New Mexico, in addition to the Pinnacle, Mescal and Telegraph fires in Gila and Graham Counties in southeastern Arizona were also actively burning this morning, releasing moderate-to-heavy density smoke toward the west-northwest. DUST: Eastern-Central Caribbean Islands... Light-to-moderate concentration Saharan dust is seen traveling westward across the Caribbean, affecting most of the Caribbean Sea and surrounding islands up to Jamaica and eastern Cuba. WS 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