DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0134Z July 16, 2021
SMOKE:
Canada/Northern CONUS/Greenland/North Atlantic/Pacific off the coast
of California/Baja...
An enormous area of smoke of varying density covers much of the U.S. with
the exception of a portion of the far northwestern U.S. generally west
of the Cascades and the South Central and Southeastern U.S. Smoke also
blankets much of Canada with the exception of far western Canada. An
area light to thick density smoke leftover smoke was seen over the
northwestern Atlantic to the south of Greenland and to the east of
the Canadian Maritimes. A area of thin density smoke also appeared to
extend to the southwest and off the coast of southern California and
Baja up to approximately 1,580 miles out. Virtually all of this smoke
was due to a very significant number of wildfires across central, south
central, western and southwestern Canada and across the northwestern and
western portions of the U.S. Within this huge mass of varying density
smoke was a large patch of thick smoke affecting a sizable portion
of the northwestern U.S., as well as southwestern, central, and south
central Canada. Moderately dense smoke extended farther to the east and
southeast of the area of thick smoke and was seen over the north central
and central U.S. and from the Middle Mississippi Valley region to the
east and northeast as far as a portion of the northeastern U.S. and the
Mid-Atlantic region.
Alaska…
Wildfires were detected over central and eastern Alaska with thin density
smoke visible over the western portion of Alaska extending west off the
coast over the Bering and Chukchi Sea’s.
DUST:
Eastern Mexico/Northern Central America/Gulf of Mexico/Caribbean Region...
Earlier Today,,, A rather thin layer of Saharan dust was visible this
morning spreading to the west over eastern and southeastern Mexico,
the western and southern Gulf of Mexico, northern Central America,
and a good portion of the Caribbean region including Puerto Rico and
Hispaniola. More Saharan dust stretched from just east of the Caribbean
region all the way to the west coast of Africa.
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