DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0001Z July 14, 2021
SMOKE: Western and Central United States... A large region of mostly 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 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 reaching out over the Mid-Atlantic Ocean. Some 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. 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. Rodriguez 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