Tuesday, July 13, 2021

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

 


Unless otherwise indicated:
  • Areas of smoke are analyzed using GOES-EAST and GOES-WEST Visible satellite imagery.
  • Only a general description of areas of smoke or significant smoke plumes will be analyzed.
  • A quantitative assessment of the density/amount of particulate or the vertical distribution is not included.
  • Widespread cloudiness may prevent the detection of smoke even from significant fires.