DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0049Z July 30, 2021
Canada/U.S... The expansive area of varying density smoke remained this afternoon. The smoke is attributed to significant wildfire activity in central, south central, and southwestern Canada, along with the northwestern and western CONUS, continues to be observed covering an area extending from the Pacific Northwest into and across central Canada, where the fire activity in east-central Manitoba and western Ontario adds to the area of smoke. From there most of the smoke moves southeastward across the Great Lakes and Mid-Atlantic and then turns northeastward across Nova Scotia and Newfoundland before moving on out across the northern Atlantic. Some smaller amounts of smoke are moving south from the Great Lakes across the Great Plains and the southeastern CONUS. DUST: Belize/Cuba/Bahamas/Bermuda… A band of thin Saharan Dust was seen extending northeastward from the Yucatan peninsula across central Cuba and the central Bahamas and into the open Atlantic Ocean and over Bermuda. 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