DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0130Z June 14, 2022
SMOKE: Alaska/Northwestern Canada... Numerous large fires continue to burn across southwestern Alaska although increased cloud coverage has partially or completely obscured some of those fires throughout the afternoon making it more difficult to identify individual smoke plumes. Nonetheless, moderate to occasionally heavy smoke was seen covering the central and northeastern Alaska and western Yukon, while light-to-moderate smoke could be seen across most of north-northwestern Alaska, in addition to light smoke being observed over the eastern Gulf of Alaska. Southwestern/Mid-west/Eastern/Southeastern U.S... Moderate-to-heavy density smoke was observed from wildfires in northern Arizona and New Mexico, with those plumes dispersing towards the northeast over Colorado and further into western Nebraska. Lighter density smoke from those wildfires extended over the U.S. Mid-west and combined with a large area of remnant smoke from seasonal fires across the central and southeastern U.S. covering those source regions and dipping into the northern Gulf of Mexico and over the eastern U.S. and a part of the Atlantic. SMOKE/AEROSOL: Mexico/Tropical Eastern Pacific Ocean ... Light density smoke from seasonal fire activity primarily along western Mexico mixed with other aerosols was observed covering that region and extending over the Pacific for approximately 500 miles. DUST: Southwestern U.S... A sizable area of blowing dust of moderate density was seen forming over western Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas, with the resulting plume dispersing towards the north-northeast over central Nebraska. Another moderate-to-thick density dust plume formed off northwestern New Mexico with the resulting plume dispersing towards the northeast and into southern Colorado. Finally, a third area of light-to-moderate density dust was observed forming off the Carson Sink in western Nevada with the plume dispersing towards the south-southeast, in addition to Dry Lake Valley with the plume dispersing towards the east into western Utah. Eastern Caribbean... An area of Saharan Dust was seen extending across the Tropical Atlantic Ocean and through most of the Caribbean Sea including the eastern, central and western islands of the Caribbean. The leading edge of that plume extended over the central Gulf of Mexico. 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