DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0200Z June 19, 2022
SMOKE: South Central Canada/Midwest,South Central and Southeastern U.S./Western Atlantic... A large plume of light density smoke could be seen covering southern Saskatchewan and Manitoba, most of the Great Plains and Mississippi Valley, and the southeastern U.S., extending eastward over the western Atlantic Ocean for several hundred miles, and further to the south over the northern Gulf of Mexico. Pockets of moderate density smoke were observed over western Iowa, southern Missouri and northern Arkansas, in addition to western Kansas and northern Texas. The area along the Mississippi river between Cape Girardeau in Missouri and Memphis Tennessee had a very high concentration of agricultural fires emitting light-to-moderate density smoke which was seen dispersing towards the south. Northeastern Canada... A plume of light-to-moderate density originated from wildfires in Alaska was moving eastward across northern Nunavut and the eastern Hudson Bay. Alaska and Northwestern Canada... A plume of remnant light density smoke from wildfire activity in central and southwestern Alaska stretched from the Bering Sea, passing through most of central-northern Alaska, and reaching the Yukon province and the Northwestern Territories in Canada. Western British Columbia/Pacific along and just off U.S. West Coast… A north-south elongate narrow swath of remnant thin density smoke attributed to the wildfires burning in Alaska was seen spreading to the south from along and off the coast of British Columbia to just off the coast of central California. Western Mexico... Light density smoke from seasonal fire activity along western Mexico was seen covering that region and extending westward over the Pacific ocean for a few hundred miles. DUST: Western CONUS… Blowing dust was seen forming off southern California including areas west of the Salton Sea and the Mojave Desert, as well as along eastern Nevada, northwestern Arizona and western Utah with the bulk of the dust dispersing northward into southern Idaho. Tropical Atlantic Ocean/Caribbean Sea… A large area of Saharan dust was seen moving westward across most of the Caribbean Sea, including islands of Puerto Rico, Hispaniola, Jamaica, and eastern Cuba, and extending to the north of that region for a few hundred miles. 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