DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0124Z July 3, 2022
SMOKE: Western/Northern/Southern Canada, Central and Northern U.S., Alaska... A large area of light to heavy smoke attributed mainly to the wildfires burning in portions of western and central Alaska and northwestern Canada, were seen stretching northeast from western and central Alaska through the Yukon and Northwest Territories and then extending southeast through cloud breaks in British Columbia, Alberta, and Saskatchewan continuing south and covered the central U.S. with mostly light density smoke that moved as far south as the teas Oklahoma boarder. Recent local seasonal fires have added to this mass in the central U.S, the smoke also continues eastward from the Dakotas across the northern U.S. and southern Canada until it runs into cloud cover north of Nova Scotia. Within this area are area’s of moderate density smoke extending from the fire activity in western and central Alaska northeast into the Yukon and Northwest Territories and then southeast into northern British Columbia, Alberta, North Dakota, and Minnesota. Thick density smoke covered most of Alaska due to the large number of fires in the region, most were still releasing heavy density smoke as evening approached. Mexico, Western Gulf of Mexico, Western Bay of Campeche/Pacific Ocean off the Southern Coast of Mexico... A area of light density smoke, from a combination of fire activity over eastern Mexico and gas flaring in the Bay of Campeche was visible over eastern and southern Mexico, western Gulf of Mexico, Pacific Ocean off the Southern Coast of Mexico. Atlantic Ocean... An area of generally light density smoke attributed mainly to the wildfires burning in portions of western and central Alaska and northwestern Canada was observed off the east coast of the U.S. in the far eastern Atlantic Ocean. DUST: Caribbean Sea... An area of Saharan Dust was seen blanketing much of the eastern North Atlantic extending westward across the eastern and central Caribbean Sea. This could be extending as far west as Central America but cloud cover precluded further analysis this evning. 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