DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1820Z July 3, 2021
SMOKE: Majority of U.S./Southern 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. Additional remnant smoke from previous days’ fires also added to the overwhelming volume of smoke coverage. As a result, a majority of the United States was covered in light density smoke that spanned from central California along the Pacific coast states into Canada. Smoke engulfed the entirety of Southern Canadian territories and northern U.S. border states before plunging south with the jet-stream into the Plains and southeastern U.S. The only regions exempt from the smoke coverage included the dessert southwest, Texas, south Florida and most of New England. Light smoke also extended off of the Atlantic coasts of the Carolinas, Georgia and Florida due north of tropical storm Elsa. Moderate density smoke also draped to the south from east-central Canadian wildfires and extended through the mid-western states of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas, Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee. The plume also extended over southeastern states and was encroaching on the mid-Atlantic. Moderate density smoke was also visible in central Canada and western Canada near the Washington-Canada border. Pockets of heavy smoke were also visible due to these Canadian wildfires. Heavy smoke was observed moving east of fires in southwestern Canada. Additional heavy smoke was moving east and south of fires in south-central Canada and extended into Minnesota, Wisconsin and the upper peninsula of Michigan. A final swath of heavy smoke was observed dipping into the southeastern states of Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi and South Carolina. Levine 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