Sunday, June 26, 2022

DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1510Z June 26, 2022

SMOKE:
Central and Eastern United States, Mexico, and Southeastern Canada…
A combination of active wildfires and agricultural burning activity,
couple with smoke from similar activity over the past few days and weeks,
has allowed a large area of light density smoke over much of the south
central and eastern United States, the northern Gulf of Mexico, across
much of northern Mexico extending across the Baja and extending offshore.

Alaska, Northwestern and central Canada and the North Central United
States….
A large area of light to moderate density smoke, attributed mainly to
wildfires burning in portions of Alaska and northwestern Canada was
visible today stretching from southern Alaska to the northeast over
central and eastern Alaska through northwestern and north central
Canada and southeast through British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan,
Manitoba and into the north central United States.  Within this area of
smoke, there were several areas of moderate to high density smoke with
those being over Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba extending into North
Dakota and Manitoba and also closer to the ongoing fires over central
and southern Alaska with moderate to high density smoke extending east
northeast towards the Yukon.

Tropical Atlantic Ocean and Eastern Caribbean Islands….
An area of Saharan Dust was seen extending across the Tropical Atlantic
Ocean to near and just east of the eastern Caribbean Islands.

Hanna


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.