DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1700Z July 9, 2021
SMOKE: Canada... Wildfires across the Manitoba/Ontario border region and British Columbia are producing moderate to thick smoke that is helping to produce a large area of light to moderate density smoke that blankets nearly the entirety of Canada from British Columbia and the Pacific Ocean to Newfoundland the the Labrador Sea. The thcikest smoke in British Columbia and northern Alberta continues to move northeastward, while the other thick area of smoke across mainly western Ontario is being drawn eastward. A relatively new area of fire activity has popped up over northern Saskatchewan. This activity has not contributed much to the large area of remnant smoke, but this activity has been seen producing light to moderate smoke plumes, with ones in northwestern Saskatchewan moving southwest and northeastern Saskatchewan moving southeast. 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 as far east as western Kentucky. A smaller area of remnant smoke observed over the Desert Southwest and northern Gulf of California may also have some of its origins from this activity late last week into early this week. One fire in southeastern Oregon was producing moderate smoke making its way out to the Pacific Ocean and then being drawn south from there. BLOWING DUST: Central and Eastern Caribbean... A layer of moderate density to thick Saharan dust could be seen traveling into the western portion of the Caribbean Sea. 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