DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0103Z June 20, 2021
SMOKE:
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 massive area of thin density smoke this morning stretched from off
the coast of California and western Mexico to the east and inland over
California and the remainder of the Southwestern U.S. and eastward from
there over much of the Central and South Central U.S. From there the
smoke continued eastward over the Mid-Atlantic region along the eastern
U.S. coastal region. The smoke also appeared over the Atlantic Ocean off
the U.S. east coast, and northern and western Mexico. Within this huge
expanse of thinner density smoke was a sizable area of moderately dense
smoke extending from southeastern California and southern Nevada eastward
to the Central and South Central U.S. reaching possibly as far east as the
east coast but cloud cover precluded further analysis. Moderately dense
smoke also was present over portions of northern and western Mexico and
over central California near and to the northeast of the Willow Fire with
moderately dense smoke extending possibly as far as Lake Tahoe. Thicker
smoke was noted over a portion of Arizona and western New Mexico and
closer to some of the wildfires in western Mexico. The sources for all
of this smoke are the wildfires burning especially in Arizona and New
Mexico along with some wildfire activity in portions of California,
Utah, Montana, and western Mexico.
Oregon...
In central and eastern Oregon three light to heavy density smoke plumes
attributed to wildfires were observed moving southeast across the state.
California...
In central California a light to heavy density smoke plume attributed
to wildfires was visible with the smoke moving north in direction.
DUST:
Caribbean region/Bahamas/Southern Florida/Eastern Gulf of Mexico…
Saharan dust which was seen over Cuba, the western Caribbean, and a
portion of the eastern Gulf of Mexico. A residual west-east oriented
swath of the dust was still visible due east of the eastern coast of
central Florida over the Atlantic. Farther to the east, more Saharan dust
was located over Puerto Rico, Hispaniola, the eastern Caribbean, and the
islands to the east and southeast of Puerto Rico and also extended well
to the east over the subtropical and tropical portions of the Atlantic
to the west coast of Africa.
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)
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SSDFireTeam@noaa.gov