DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0250Z August 2, 2021
U.S./Canada/Atlantic...
The expansive area of moderately dense to very dense smoke remained
Sunday afternoon and evening.
The smoke is attributed to significant wildfire activity in central,
south-central, and southwestern Canada, along with the northwestern and
western U.S. Smoke continues to be observed covering an area extending
from the Pacific Northwest into and across essentially all of Canada,
parts of the northern U.S. and from the Mid-Atlantic into the
southeastern U.S./Mississippi Valley and eastern sections of the
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 U.S. 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 Northwest through much of Canada, eastern Alaska,
the High Plains of the U.S. and the Midwest/Great Lakes region. Light
smoke
was detected from Alaska across most of western/central Canada with clouds
obscuring the view in eastern Canada, south through the Pacific Northwest,
across the northern U.S. Rockies section into all of the Northern Plains,
and across parts of the Central/Southern Plains. Then, eastward into the
Mississippi Valley, southeast U.S. 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 U.S. near Newfoundland extending for several
hundred miles into the Atlantic.
Hawaii...
A large wildfire located over the northern part of the Big Island was
spreading a thin density plume west-southwestward for several hundred
miles over the open Pacific. Moderate and thick density plumes were
found within 150 miles of the wildfire complex.
DUST:
Caribbean Islands...
A band of thin Saharan dust was detected extending over the Bahamas,
Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico.
Konon
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