DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0230Z June 28, 2021
SMOKE:
Ontario/Minnesota...
In western Ontario, a large area of mostly moderate density smoke
attributed to wildfires was observed initially moving east across
Ontario in direction and then was pushed southwest over northern
Minnesota before entering areas of heavy cloud cover. A thin density,
narrow plume extends to the southern part of James Bay,
California/Oregon...
In northern California, a light to heavy density smoke plume
attributed to wildfires were observed spreading in all directions
immediately around the fire with a light to moderate density plume
extending into southwestern Oregon.
Washington...
A wildfire in the eastern part of the state was spreading a narrow,
light density plume westward to the Seattle area.
Southwestern U.S...
A large region of light to moderate density smoke emitted from the
Rafael, Horton, and Bear wildfire complexes in Arizona was observed
this evening. Thick density smoke was observed progressing southwest
from both fire complexes. Smoke from these wildfires were spreading
over most of Arizona, northwestern Mexico, southern California,
southern New Mexico, and western Texas.
Northwest Territories...
A wildfire in the Nahanni National Park Reserve was spreading a
narrow, moderate to thick density plume several hundred miles to the
east.
DUST:
Atlantic/Caribbean...
Thick Saharan Dust was observed extending from Africa across the
tropical Atlantic across the Lesser Antilles and into the eastern half
of the Caribbean Sea.
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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