Monday, June 21, 2021

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

 


Unless otherwise indicated:
  • Areas of smoke are analyzed using GOES-EAST and GOES-WEST Visible satellite imagery.
  • Only a general description of areas of smoke or significant smoke plumes will be analyzed.
  • A quantitative assessment of the density/amount of particulate or the vertical distribution is not included.
  • Widespread cloudiness may prevent the detection of smoke even from significant fires.