DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0145Z June 6, 2022
SMOKE: New Mexico, South-Central United States, Southeastern United States and Atlantic Ocean... The fires in New Mexico continued to produce a large area of mostly light density smoke that was seen extending across most of the south central United States, southeastern United States and extending off the Southeast Coast of the United States and into the western Atlantic Ocean. The area of moderate density smoke was located closer to the fire activity over southwest New Mexico. Southern Canada and North Central United States…. An area of thin density smoke, from the fire activity over central Saskatchewan, was extending from southern Ontario through the North Central United States to southern Saskatchewan. Northern Saskatchewan, Northern Alberta and Northwest Territories... A wildfire over central Saskatchewan was producing a light to moderate density smoke plume that was extending through northern Saskatchewan, northern Alberta and into the Northwest Territories. Alaska... Fire activity over southwest Alaska was producing a light to moderate density smoke plume that was extending west towards coastal areas of southwest Alaska. SMOKE/AEROSOL: Mexico, Tropical Eastern Pacific Ocean and the western Gulf of Mexico... A large area of light density smoke from 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 western Gulf Mexico, and to the west over the Tropical Eastern Pacific Ocean. DUST: Eastern Caribbean…. An area of Saharan Dust was extending across the Tropical Atlantic Ocean and beginning to move into the eastern Caribbean Islands and Caribbean Sea. Hanna 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