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