DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1600Z July 9, 2022

SMOKE:
Alaska, Northern, Central and Eastern Canada, Northern and Central Plains
extending east through the Midwest and into the Eastern United States...
An expansive area of varying density smoke continues to be observed
extending from Alaska across most of northern and central Canada
into eastern Canada and portions of the Northeastern United States.
The smoke also extended south from central Canada into the Northern and
Central Plains and then east through the Midwest and into the Eastern
United States.  Within this area, moderate to high density smoke was seen
extending across most of northern Alaska through most of northern Canada
and southeast towards northern Ontario and western Quebec.  The highest
density smoke was seen over northern Alaska, the Northern Yukon and the
northern Northwest Territories.

Mexico, Western Gulf of Mexico, Southern Plains, Southeastern United
States..
An area of light density smoke, from fire activity over the region over
the past few days combined with smoke from the Alaskan and western Canada
fires, was seen extending from eastern Mexico north through the western
Gulf of Mexico and into the Southern Plains extending east through the
Gulf Coast states and Southeastern United States and into the western
Atlantic Ocean.

BLOWING DUST:
Tropical Atlantic…
A large area of Saharan Dust was observed across most of the Tropical
Atlantic Ocean and through the northeastern Caribbean Islands and
northeast Caribbean Sea.

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.