DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0145Z June 20, 2022
SMOKE: South-Central Canada/Great Plains/Northern Gulf of Mexico/Southeastern U.S... A large plume of light-density smoke covered south-central Manitoba, western Ontario and the majority of the Great Plains, extending further south over the northern Gulf of Mexico and parts of the southeastern U.S. including Mississippi, Alabama, southern Georgia, and Florida, finally advancing eastward over the Atlantic ocean for several hundred miles off the coast of Florida. Alaska and Northwestern Canada... Significant cloud cover was present over a good portion of southern and eastern Alaska which limited information through satellite imagery on the extent and density of smoke from recent wildfire activity in Alaska. Nonetheless, a relatively narrow band of light smoke approximately 300 miles wide was still visible stretching from western Alaska, passing through central Alaska and reaching western Yukon. Additionally, two new wildfires developed broke out during the afternoon over central Northern Territories releasing moderate-to-heavy smoke in the area. Southern Utah... A wildfire in northwestern Kane County was actively burning during the afternoon hours releasing heavy towards the northeast and across central and northeastern Utah. Western Mexico... Widespread seasonal fire activity continued along western Mexico with light density smoke covering that region and extending westward over the Pacific ocean for a few hundred miles. DUST: Tropical Atlantic Ocean/Caribbean Sea… A large area of mainly thin density Saharan dust made remains largely stagnant over 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