DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1530Z June 9, 2022
SMOKE: New Mexico, South-Central, Southeastern U.S... An area of light density smoke from the ongoing fires in New Mexico was observed covering parts of New Mexico, Colorado and Arizona, eastward through the Southern Plains and Gulf Coastal States and extending northeast off the Southeast United States coastline and into the western Atlantic Ocean. Alaska... Numerous fires over southwestern Alaska were producing an area of moderate to high density smoke that was extending west and southwest off coastal locations of southwest Alaska. United States Northern Plains, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, Northwest Territories…. A large area of light to moderate density smoke, from the fires over central Saskatchewan, was extending from portions of the United States Northern Plains northwest through southern Manitoba, much of Saskatchewan, northern Alberta and into the Northwest Territories. Within this area, moderate to high density smoke was seen closer to the fire activity over central Saskatchewan. SMOKE/AEROSOL: Mexico, Tropical Eastern Pacific Ocean and 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 and other industrial sources in Mexico was observed covering most of Mexico, portions of the western and northern Gulf of Mexico and to the west into the Tropical Pacific Ocean. DUST: Eastern Caribbean…. An area of Saharan Dust was extending across the Tropical Atlantic Ocean towards the western Caribbean Sea and into the southeastern Gulf of Mexico. This area includes most of the eastern, central and western Caribbean Islands and was also moving into portions of coastal southeast Mexico and coastal Central America. 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