DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1231Z July 3, 2021

SMOKE:
Eastern Alaska/Northern/Central U.S./Central and Northwestern Canada...
Numerous large wildfires in northern California, British Columbia and
central Canada are emitting large quantities of smoke across those
regions, while also impacting downwind areas to the east-southeast of
those sources. As a result, a very large plume of mostly moderate smoke
cover areas extending from northern California, into Oregon, Washington,
Idaho, Montana, the Dakotas, Nebraska, northeastern Oklahoma, northern
Missouri, Tennessee, Iowa, Minnesota, Michigan, Illinois and Wisconsin,
while blanketing the majority of central Canada including southeastern
British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Quebec, and Ontario. Pockets
of moderate-to-high density smoke are found in northern California
and central Oregon, southeastern British Columbia, northern Manitoba,
most of Ontario, and northern Minnesota. A second large plume covers
central-eastern Alaska, extending eastward across northern Yukon and
into the Northern Territories.


Dust:
Central-eastern Caribbean...
Light Saharan dust can be found spreading westward across most of the
Caribbean Sea ahead of Hurricane Elsa.

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

Unless otherwise indicated:

Areas of smoke are analyzed using GOES-EAST and GOES-WEST Visible satellite imagery.

Only a general description of areas of smoke or significant smoke plumes will be analyzed.

A quantitative assessment of the density/amount of particulate or the vertical distribution is not included.

Widespread cloudiness may prevent the detection of smoke even from significant fires.