Tuesday, June 14, 2022

DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0136Z June 15, 2022


SMOKE:
Alaska/Northwestern Canada...
Numerous large fires continue to burn across southwestern Alaska and
are producing a large area of light to moderate density smoke that
was extending across Alaska and into most of the Yukon and Northwest
Territories.  The smoke also extends southeast through much of British
Columbia and into northern Washington.  Within this large area of smoke,
several areas of moderate density smoke were noted, those being a large
area extending over most of northern and eastern Alaska into the northern
Yukon and also area from northeast British Columbia extending northeast
into the southern Northwest Territories.

Southwestern/Mid-west/Eastern/Southeastern U.S...
Throughout the day mostly moderate to heavy density smoke was observed
from numerous wildfires in northern and southern Arizona and northern
and southwestern New Mexico, with those plumes dispersing towards the
northeast and into the Central and Northern Plains states. Lighter density
smoke from those wildfires extended over the U.S. Midwest and combined
with a large area of smoke from seasonal fires across the central and
northern U.S. covering those source regions and dipping into the northern
Gulf of Mexico and over the eastern United States and southeastern Canada.

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 into the Tropical Eastern Pacific.

DUST:
Tropical Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico...
Two areas of Saharan Dust were noted with the first extending across
the Tropical Atlantic Ocean through the eastern Caribbean Islands and
into the eastern Caribbean Sea.  The second was seen over the western
Caribbean Sea extending northwest through the western Caribbean Islands
and into the Gulf of Mexico towards coastal Texas before running into
cloud cover this evening.

Eglin


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

 


Unless otherwise indicated:
  • Areas of smoke are analyzed using GOES-EAST and GOES-WEST Visible satellite imagery.
  • Only a general description of areas of smoke or significant smoke plumes will be analyzed.
  • A quantitative assessment of the density/amount of particulate or the vertical distribution is not included.
  • Widespread cloudiness may prevent the detection of smoke even from significant fires.