DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0140Z July 11, 2021
SMOKE:
Western and Central U.S…
Wildfires in northern California, southern Oregon, southeastern
Washington, northern Idaho, and western Montana were responsible for a
large area of smoke which covered most of the Western, North Central, and
Central U.S. Moderately dense to thick smoke was present over portions of
northern California, southern and eastern Oregon, northern Nevada, Idaho,
western Montana, Utah, western Wyoming, Colorado and western Kansas.
Canada/Far North Central U.S…
Numerous wildfires in Central and Western Canada were producing a large
area of smoke that extended through most of Canada and into the north
central United States. Included in this area, is a large area of moderate
to high density smoke that extended from southwestern Quebec west to
the north central United States and then into most of Central Canada.
Mid-Atlantic Region/Northeast/Western Atlantic off the Southeast coast
of Canada…
An area of light density smoke, likely from the wildfires in the Western
U.S. and in Central and Western Canada, was seen from coastal Rhode
Island and Connecticut and then extending southwest into Virginia,
North Carolina and South Carolina.
DUST:
Gulf of Mexico/Bahamas/Southeastern Mexico/Northern Central
America/Caribbean Region...
An area of Saharan Dust was seen over portions of the central Caribbean
Sea extending west into portions of central America through southeastern
Mexico and into the Gulf of Mexico.
Hanna
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