Sunday, July 3, 2022

DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0046Z July 4, 2022

SMOKE:
Western/Northern/Southern Canada, Central and Northern and cental-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 Alaska through the Yukon
and Northwest Territories and then extending southeast through cloud
breaks in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. The smoke
continuing south and covered the central U.S. with mostly light density
smoke that moved as far south as the Texas Oklahoma boarder. Recent local
seasonal fires have added to this mass in the central U.S, the smoke also
continues northeastward from the central U.S. across the northern U.S. and
southern Canada until it runs into cloud cover near Newfoundland. Within
this area are area’s of moderate density smoke extending from the
fire activity in western  Alaska northeast into the Yukon, Northwest
Territories and east into Nunavut. 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. Numerous heavy
density smoke  plumbs were seen in the Northwest Territories as well.

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.


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 afternoon.

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

 


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.