DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1624Z July 12, 2021
SMOKE: Western and Central United States... A large region of moderate to thick density smoke attributed from wildfire activity in northern California, southern Oregon, southeastern Washington, northern Idaho, and western Montana was observed over most of the Northern and Central Rockies as well as parts of the southwestern, south central, north central and northwestern U.S. Thick density smoke was observed over portions of Southern, California, Nevada, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, Arizona, most of New Mexico, and parts of West Texas. Light density smoke was seen covering most of the western half of the U.S. from the ongoing wildfire activity. Canada,Central United States... Widespread wildfire activity was observed in Central Saskatchewan, Central/Southern Manitoba, and Western Ontario. Wildfire activity was also observed in the Southern Northwest Territories and Southern/Central British Columbia Provinces. A large region of moderate to thick density smoke attributed to all the widespread wildfire activity was observed over most of Central and South Central Canada. Moderate to thick density smoke was also observed over the North Central U.S. over portions of Wisconsin, Minnesota, and the Dakotas. Light to moderate density smoke was observed from smoke transport from the Canadian wildfire activity seen over most of the Hudson Bay, and portions of Ontario and Quebec. Northern Pacific Ocean... A region of light density smoke was observed ahead of a weather system over parts of the Northern Pacific Ocean. DUST: Tropical Atlantic Ocean to the southeastern Caribbean Islands… Thick Saharan Dust was observed extending from Africa across the tropical Atlantic Ocean across the Lesser Antilles and into the western half of the Caribbean Sea encroaching on Central America. Eglin 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