DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 2300Z July 5, 2021
SMOKE:
Eastern Alaska/Northwestern, Southern and Eastern Canada/Northern and
Eastern half of the US...
Wildfire activity continued across eastern Alaska with moderate-to-heavy
density smoke moving east across Yukon and Northwest Territories and into
western Nunavut. Wildfires are also persisting across southern British
Columbia with several smoke plumes coalescing and dispersing toward
the east into southern Alberta and Saskatchewan. Persisting wildfires
are also found across southeastern Manitoba and western Ontario with
moderate-density smoke dispersing toward the southeast, adding to a large
area of smoke from previous day fires that covers most of the eastern
U.S. and New England. That large plume is moving eastward following the
higher level atmospheric flow. Additional pockets of light-density smoke
originated from wildfires in Canada and the northern U.S. are found
over the northwestern and central Atlantic. Finally, the Salt Fire in
Shasta County in Northern California continued to emit moderate-to-heavy
density smoke, with the plume dispersing toward southern Oregon and
further into Montana and the Dakotas.
Mexico...
A light density and mostly stagnant smoke plume was seen covering the
state of Vera Cruz, while oil rigs in the Bay of Campeche could be
seen releasing light density smoke from gas flaring activity toward
the northwest.
Dust:
Eastern Caribbean...
Light Saharan dust could be seen traveling westward into the Eastern
Caribbean region.
WS
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