DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1704Z July 13, 2021
SMOKE:
Western and Central United States...
A large region of mostly moderate density smoke with bands of 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 western and Central U.S. extending
from California in the west to Michigan in the east. Some of the enormous
amount of smoke being produced in Canada is adding to this smoke creating
one large area of smoke over much of the U.S. and Canada.
Canada, Central United States, Atlantic Ocean...
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 Canada with a huge area of thick smoke from the Central/Southern
Manitoba and Western Ontario wildfires was observed moving northeast in
direction over the Hudson bay, northern Quebec, and ending just off the
coast into the Atlantic Ocean. Some light to moderate density smoke was
also observed reaching south east Greenland and also is visible in the
Atlantic Ocean south of Newfoundland.
Alaska...
In central Alaska a light to moderate density smoke plume attributed to
wildfires was observed moving east across the state.
Pacific Ocean...
A band of light density smoke was observed extending from the coast of
southern British Columbia extending west by south west approximately
1,350 miles over the Pacific Ocean.
DUST:
Tropical Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea...
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)
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SSDFireTeam@noaa.gov