DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1700Z July 8, 2021
SMOKE: Canada... Wildfires across the Manitoba/Ontario border region and British Columbia are helping to produce a large area of light to moderate density smoke that extends over most of Canada from British Columbia and northern Washington State into the Yukon and Northwest Territories. From there, the smoke extends east across Nunavut, northern Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, across Hudson Bay ad into northern Quebec. Active heavy smoke emissions were observed from wildfires across British Columbia and the Manitoba/Ontario border region. Smoke from these areas was generally moving east-northeastward across central British Columbia and east-northeastward across the Manitoba and Ontario, respectively. Some remnant smoke from the Manitoba-Ontario border region was seen across the Mississippi Valley as well. Northeastern US/Maritime Canada/North Atlantic… Light remnant smoke from likely both main Canadian sources above was also observed extending east-northeast from the Mid-Atlantic and northeastern CONUS across the Canadian Maritime Provinces and into a cyclone exiting the Labrador Sea. Some of this smoke may possibly be making its way further east across the North Atlantic, but widespread cloud cover inhibits the ability to analyze smoke there. Pacific Northwest... Wildfires across northern California, Oregon, and Idaho have been and are still producing moderate to thick smoke. The smoke from these fires was seen extending into northern Wyoming and Montana. Remnant smoke from these fires was observed wrapping around the eastern periphery upper high over the western CONUS. This would include western Nebraska, the Texas and Oklahoma Panhandles, and southern new Mexico. Southeastern California and southwestern Arizona… Remnant smoke from yesterday’s fire activity was observed across portions of the desert southwest. The smoke had settled into the lower areas of southwest Arizona and southeast California. Eastern CONUS/Southeastern Canada/North Atlantic... A layer of thin to moderate density remnant smoke was observed blanketing an area extending from Texas and Oklahoma into the Ohio Valley and Mid-Atlantic. From there, the layer of smoke is being drawn east-northeastward along a front into portions of the Maritime Provinces and the North Atlantic. The parent fire activity for this smoke is the wildfire activity across the Manitoba/Ontario border. BLOWING DUST: Central and Eastern Caribbean... A layer of moderate density to thick Saharan dust could be seen traveling westward across the eastern Caribbean, eastern Bahamas, and the southwestern Sargasso Sea. The western edge extends across Jamaica, eastern Cuba, and the eastern Bahamas, with the eastern edge a few hundred miles east of the Windward Islands. Hosley 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