DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1830 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. Light
smoke encompassed almost the entire western half of the United States
including all of the Pacific west and southwest, Canadian border states
and the southern plains states of Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana.
Canada/Central U.S/New England…
Numerous wildfires in Central and Western Canada were producing a large
area of smoke that extended through most of Canada and into the central
United States. Included in this area, is a large area of moderate to
thick smoke that extended from southwestern Quebec west to the north
central United States and then into most of Central Canada and includes
states such as North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin and
upper-peninsula of Michigan. Additional moderate and light density smoke
extended over the entirety of Canada and as far east as Niagara Falls
and New England.
Blue Ridge Mountains/Mid-Atlantic Region/Western Atlantic…
An area of light density smoke, likely from the wildfires in the Western
U.S. and in Central and Western Canada, was seen between a break in the
cloud cover along the Blue Ridge mountains in Tennessee/North Carolina
border, West Virginia, DELMARVA, southern Pennsylvania, southern New
Jersey and extending out into the DELMARVA western Atlantic ocean.
DUST:
Caribbean Region...
An area of Saharan Dust was seen over portions of the central Caribbean
Sea extending west towards Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.
Gulf of Mexico…
Light remnants of Saharan Dust was seen in the Gulf of Mexico.
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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