Monday, July 26, 2021

DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0200Z July 27, 2021

SMOKE:
Canada, United States, and Western Atlantic...
A broad region of smoke attributed from widespread wildfire activity
across the Western U.S. and Southern Canada was observed over a large
region of Southern Canada, most of the Northern U.S., and extending as far
east out over the Western Atlantic. Thick density smoke was seen covering
most of Southern Canada and progressing eastward away from widespread
wildfire activity present in Southern British Columbia, Saskatchewan,
Manitoba, and Ontario. Thick density smoke was also seen covering most
of the Northern U.S. progressing eastward and northeastward away from
the Dixie and Bootleg wildfire complexes over Northern California and
Southern Oregon as well as away from widespread wildfire activity in
Eastern Washington, Northern Idaho and Western/Central Montana. Thick
density smoke was also seen as far east out over the Western Atlantic near
the Canadian Maritimes as well as over parts of Northern and Southern
New England including Northern New Jersey, Southern New York over Long
Island, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hemisphere, Vermont,
and Maine. Moderate density smoke was seen over most of the Northern
U.S as well as over most of New England also south over parts of the
Southeastern U.S. and the Northern and Central Gulf of Mexico. Moderate
density smoke was also observed over most of the Northern and Central
Plains and the Northern Ohio River Valley. Smoke was not observed over
Southern Florida and parts of Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico. The broad
region of smoke was observed progressing eastward in this evening’s
GOES visible satellite imagery.

Alaska...
Wildfire activity was observed over parts of Central and East Central
Alaska where thick density smoke was seen in the vicinity of three fire
complexes. Light to moderate density smoke was observed over most of
the region, however the extent of the smoke was difficult to determine
due to cloud cover over the region observed in this evening’s GOES
visible satellite imagery.

DUST:
Caribbean and Atlantic...
A large region of light to moderate density Saharan dust was observed
covering the eastern Caribbean region including Puerto Rico, Hispaniola,
and Cuba as well as over parts of the Central and Western Caribbean
Sea near Jamaica. Saharan dust was observed as well over parts of the
Western Atlantic to the north of Puerto Rico and southeast of Bermuda
in this evening’s GOES visible satellite imagery.

Sambucci


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.