DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1658Z June 29, 2021
SMOKE: Ontario, Minnesota... In western Ontario a large area of mostly light to moderate density smoke attributed to wildfires was observed moving southwest over northern Minnesota. This area also spread east across Ontario. California... In northern California a light to heavy density smoke plume attributed to wildfires were observed spreading northwest in direction over southwest Washington. 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. Thick density smoke was observed near the fire complexes. Smoke from the wildfires are progressing over most of Arizona, Nevada, southern California, and out over the Pacific Ocean. Northwest Territories... In the far southwestern part of the Northwest Territories a light density smoke plume attributed to wildfires was observed spreading northeast in direction. DUST: Tropical Atlantic Ocean to the southeastern Caribbean Islands… Thick Saharan Dust was observed extending from Africa across the tropical Atlantic Ocean across the Lesser Antilles and is encroaching the eastern Caribbean Sea. Cloud cover over much of the Lower 48 and Canada precluded further smoke analysis. 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