DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0100Z June 19, 2021
SMOKE:
California...
In central California a light to heavy density smoke plume attributed
to wildfires was visible with the smoke moving north in direction.
Montana...
In southern Montana a thin band of moderate density smoke attributed to
wildfires was observed moving east in direction.
Much of the Lower 48/Southeastern Canada/Northern Mexico/Extreme western
Atlantic/Northwestern Gulf of Mexico/Eastern Pacific to the west of
California and Mexico…
The enormous area of thin density smoke was still visible this afternoon
covering much of the lower 48 in the U.S. with the exception of the area
stretching from Washington, Oregon, and far northern California eastward
to the western Great Lakes region. Florida and a portion of the Gulf Coast
may also be smoke free though cloud cover in that region prevented smoke
detection in satellite imagery. The smoke also was present over southern
and eastern Quebec, the far western Atlantic off the U.S. east coast,
the northwestern Gulf of Mexico, northern and western Mexico, and the
eastern Pacific off the coast of California and western Mexico. Within
the thinner density smoke was a sizable batch of moderately dense smoke
over western Mexico, virtually all of the Southwestern and South Central
U.S. from southern California and Nevada eastward to the Middle and Lower
Mississippi Valley. Thicker smoke was also visible closer to some of the
wildfires in Arizona and western New Mexico. The majority of this vast
coverage of smoke was due to wildfires burning especially in Arizona,
New Mexico, Utah, and southern Montana as well as western Mexico.
Alaska/Northwestern Canada…
Several wildfires in central and east central Alaska and the central
part of the Yukon in northwestern Canada were responsible for a west
to east elongated swath of mainly thin density smoke which was seen
extending from northeastern Alaska over the northern Yukon and much of
the Northwest Territories in northwestern Canada.
DUST:
Caribbean region/Bahamas/Southern Florida…
The western portion of rather thin Saharan dust was seen over Cuba,
the western Caribbean, and a portion of the eastern Gulf of Mexico. The
dust may also be present a bit farther to the north over the Bahamas
and Florida though cloud cover there prevented detection in satellite
imagery. Farther to the east, more Saharan dust was located over Puerto
Rico and the islands to the east and southeast of there and extended well
to the east over the subtropical and tropical portions of the Atlantic
to the west coast of Africa.
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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)
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SSDFireTeam@noaa.gov