DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1600Z July 31, 2021
Canada/U.S...
The expansive area of moderately dense to very dense smoke remained this
morning into early afternoon. The smoke is attributed to significant
wildfire activity in central, south central, and southwestern Canada,
along with the northwestern and western US. Smoke continues to be
observed covering an area extending from the Pacific Northwest into and
across northern/central Canada, parts of the northern US and from the
Mid-Atlantic into the southeastern US/Mississippi Valley and eastern
sections of central/southern Plains. Areas of thick density smoke
stretched across parts of central Yukon Territory and into central
sections of British Columbia, central/southern Alberta, southern
Saskatchewan, southern/central Manitoba and into the northern US from
Montana into northern Minnesota. Light smoke was seen from Alaska across
most of western/central Canada with cloud obscuring the view in eastern
Canada, south through the Pacific Northwest, across the Northern US
Rockies section into all of the Northern Plains and across parts of
the central/southern Plains. Then eastward into the Mississippi Valley,
southeast US and north into the Mid-Atlantic and southern sections of
the northeast and finally along the southeast coast out into the Atlantic.
DUST:
Lesser Antilles/South America…
A band of thin Saharan Dust was seen extending over the Lesser Antilles
and northern countries of South America and reaching near Central America
in latest
G-16 imagery.
J Kibler
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