DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0145Z June 6, 2022
SMOKE: New Mexico, South-Central, Southeastern U.S... The Black Fire in southwestern New Mexico continued to emit moderate-to-heavy density smoke this afternoon, in addition to the Calf Canyon fire in north-central New Mexico which had moderate density smoke showing during the late afternoon hours. Both smoke plumes were dispersing toward the east. Light density smoke originating from the New Mexico wildfires as well as from seasonal fires in Texas covered Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas, extending south over the northern Gulf of Mexico further east approaching Florida. Eastern U.S... An area of remnant light density smoke from the ongoing wildfires in New Mexico with contributions from recent seasonal burning in the central U.S. was observed moving northeast covering most of Kentucky, Tennessee and Western Virginia, in addition to northern Alabama, Georgia, northwestern North Carolina, southern Indiana and Ohio. Saskatchewan... In central Saskatchewan a large wildfire continued to burn releasing moderate-to-heavy smoke plume towards the west and into northeastern Alberta. Alaska... In western Alaska a large light-to-moderate density smoke plume attributed to a wildfire was observed moving southwest extending over the Bering Sea. SMOKE/AEROSOL: Mexico/Pacific... A large area of light to moderate density smoke from heavy seasonal fire activity along western, eastern and southern Mexico mixed with aerosols from gas flaring in the Bay of Campeche and other industrial sources in Mexico was observed covering most of Mexico, and extending to the east over the central-southern Gulf Mexico, and to the west over the Pacific for approximately 500 miles off the Mexican coastline. DUST: Caribbean... A thin plume of Saharan dust was observed over the the western part of the Caribbean Sea, while another major Saharan dust plume is seen approaching the eastern Caribbean islands coming from the central Atlantic. WS 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 map: https://www.ospo.noaa.gov/data/land/fire/currenthms.jpg Smoke data: https://satepsanone.nesdis.noaa.gov/pub/FIRE/web/HMS/Smoke_Polygons Fire data: https://satepsanone.nesdis.noaa.gov/pub/FIRE/web/HMS/Fire_Points ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS REGARDING THIS PRODUCT SHOULD BE SENT TO: SSDFireTeam@noaa.gov