DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1650Z June 30, 2021
SMOKE:
Northwestern and Northern U.S./Central Canada...
A very large plume of light density smoke is observed extending from the
northern tip of California, into central-northern Oregon, and covering
the majority of Washington, the eastern half of British Columbia, the
majority of Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba, in addition to southern
Northern Territories in Canada and northeastern Montana, northern North
Dakota, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. Embedded in that larger plume, we find
an area of moderate-to-heavy smoke along the Alberta-Saskatchewan border
and adjacent areas across northern Saskatchewan and Manitoba, and southern
Northern Territories, in addition to a smaller pocket of moderate smoke
covering northeastern Minnesota and northern Wisconsin. Those plumes are
moving in the general eastward direction. Finally, the Lava and Tennant
wildfires in Northern California show an elongated though relatively
narrow (50 miles across) moderate-density smoke plume dispersing toward
the southeast over northwestern Nevada and further into the northwest
through central Oregon, western Washington and southwestern British
Columbia.
Northwestern Atlantic...
Another sizable area of light density smoke originating from previous
days fires in central-southern Canada is seen traveling eastward over
the northwestern Atlantic off the coast of New England.
Southeastern California/Southern Arizona...
Light density stagnant smoke from previous day fires is seen over
southeastern California and southern Arizona.
Dust:
Central-Eastern Caribbean...
Light Saharan dust is traveling westward across most of the
central-eastern Caribbean region.
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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