DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1700Z June 26, 2021
SMOKE:
Southwestern and South Central U.S…
A sizable area of thin density smoke attributed to wildfires in Arizona
and western New Mexico was seen this morning stretching from just off the
coast of southern California inland over southern California and across
central Arizona and much of New Mexico reaching as far east as central
Kansas, western Oklahoma, and northwestern Texas. Within this thinner
area was a stripe of moderate density smoke across central Arizona,
southwestern and central New Mexico, and northwestern Texas and far
western Oklahoma. Thick smoke extended south of the Rafael Fire in
central Arizona and to the south and east of the cluster of wildfires
in eastern Arizona and western New Mexico.
Area from Louisiana to the Lower and Middle Mississippi Valley and
Ohio Valley…
A swath of remnant thin density smoke likely trapped in the atmosphere
mainly attributed to the wildfires in the Southwestern U.S. was visible
between breaks in the clouds extending from Louisiana to the north over
the Lower and Middle Mississippi Valley region and then to the northeast
from there over the Ohio Valley region to western Pennsylvania.
Area from West Central to South Central Canada...
A swath of thin density smoke likely originating from a few wildfires
in central and eastern Alaska and northwestern Canada was seen
from the southeast part of the Northwest Territories/northeastern
Alberta/northwestern Saskatchewan extending to the southeast to east
central Saskatchewan and central Manitoba. The smoke may also be present
farther to the northwest and farther to the southeast but cloudiness
in those regions prevented detection in satellite imagery. Another
stripe of leftover thin density smoke was seen in between breaks in
the clouds extending from central Ontario eastward across James Bay
to western Quebec. This smoke was due mainly to wildfires in western
Ontario. A patch of thicker smoke was visible closer to the larger
wildfire in southwestern Ontario though cloudiness over south central
Canada prevented additional information on the extent and density of
the smoke from these wildfires in satellite imagery.
Alaska and Northwestern Canada...
Cloud cover again prevented much in the way of smoke detection in
satellite imagery especially with the wildfire complex in central Alaska
though a band of thin to moderate density smoke was visible extending
to the east across the northern Yukon in northwestern Canada from a
wildfire located in the northern Yukon.
Western Atlantic...
A broad area of remnant thin density smoke with source likely from the
wildfire activity in south central Canada and/or from the wildfires in
the Southwestern U.S. was noted early this morning stretching from the
Canadian Maritimes to the east and northeast across southern Greenland
and the Atlantic.
Dust:
The leading and western most edge of a huge area of Saharan dust was
seen this morning extending from just east of Puerto Rico across much
of the tropical and subtropical 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)
ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS REGARDING THIS PRODUCT SHOULD BE SENT TO:
SSDFireTeam@noaa.gov