DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1655Z August 1, 2021
Canada/U.S...
The expansive area of moderately dense to very dense smoke remained this
morning into early this 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 essentially all of 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. Thick smoke was also observed
in eastern Alaska and the far northern territories of Canada. Moderate
smoke covered much of the same area, from the Pacific NW US through all of
Canada, eastern Alaska, high plains of the US and the Mid-West/Great Lakes
region. 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. Additional light smoke was
observed extending off of the eastern coast of the US near Newfoundland
extending for miles into the western and central Atlantic ocean.
DUST:
Caribbean Islands…
A band of thin Saharan Dust was seen extending over the Bahamas, Virgin
Islands and Puerto Rico.
Levine
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