DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0100Z July 26, 2021
SMOKE:
Western United States and Western Canada to the Great Lakes...
Dense smoke continued to pour from large fires in northern California,
moving north and then eastward across Oregon, Idaho, and northern
Nevada and Utah, and merging with smoke plumes from the numerous fires
throughout the interior Pacific Northwest U.S. and southeastern British
Columbia. The combined smoke from these fires reached as far in moderate
densities as the southern Great Lakes.
South Central Canada to Quebec and the Northeastern U.S....
Numerous large fires in Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and western Ontario were
producing dense smoke that stretched east and southeastward as far as
western Quebec, the northern and eastern Great Lakes, and New England.
Northeastern Alaska and Northern Canada...
Fires across the Arctic, particularly in the Northwest Territories of
Canada, were producing plumes of light and moderate smoke stretching
from northeastern Alaska and into Nunavut. A fire on the east side of
Great Bear Lake was producing locally dense smoke.
DUST:
Tropical and Western Atlantic Ocean...
An area of Saharan dust was observed stretching from the west African
coast to the Lesser Antilles, and northwestward up as far as Bermuda.
MTC
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