DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1740Z June 21, 2021
SMOKE: Mid-Atlantic/Northeast/Atlantic... A detached thin density plume, likely from previous day’s fires, was detected extending from West Virginia northeastward into New York and New England, and offshore over the Atlantic south of Nova Scotia for about 700 miles. Central/Southern Rockies... Scattered wildfires across western Colorado and northern Utah were producing small, narrow light density plumes. Several wildfire clusters in Arizona and New Mexico were producing light to moderate density plumes that cover far southern Nevada and Utah, northern and eastern Arizona, southwestern New Mexico, a small part of northern Mexico, and far western Texas. Pacific Northwest... A wildfire in north-central Oregon was spreading a light to moderate density plume to the west to the Pacific coast. A thin density detached plume from this same wildfire was moving northeastward over eastern Washington. DUST: Caribbean A thin plume of Saharan dust covers the eastern part of the Caribbean Sea. Konon 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