DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0130Z June 22, 2021
SMOKE:
Western/Southwestern/South-Central U.S., Northern Mexico/Eastern Pacific
off the western U.S. and Mexico...
A large 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 Texas. Within this area of thinner density smoke was
a sizable area of moderately dense smoke extending from southeastern
California and southern Nevada eastward to the South Central U.S.,
Large areas of 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, Colorado, and western Mexico.
Mid-Atlantic/Northeast/Atlantic...
A detached thin density plume, likely from ongoing fires was detected
extending from South Carolina north up to New England and offshore over
the Atlantic.
Colorado...
In western/central Colorado three large light to heavy density smoke
plumes attributed to wildfires were observed moving east across the state.
Oregon...
In north Oregon a light to heavy density smoke plume attributed to
wildfires were observed moving southeast across the state.
Washington...
In northern Washington a light to heavy density smoke plume attributed
to wildfires was visible with the smoke moving east in direction.
Alaska...
In western Alaska a large light to heavy density smoke plume and a light
density smoke plume attributed to wildfires were observed moving west
across the state.
DUST:
Caribbean
A thin plume of Saharan dust covers the eastern part of the Caribbean Sea.
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)
ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS REGARDING THIS PRODUCT SHOULD BE SENT TO:
SSDFireTeam@noaa.gov