DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1700Z July 27, 2022
SMOKE: Yukon/Northwest Territory/British Columbia/Alberta... Wildfires along the southern Yukon and Northwest Territory was observed producing massive thick smoke plumes moving southeast through parts of British Columbia and northern Alberta. A large area of light density extended from the southern Yukon and Northwest Territory through Alberta and reach parts of the U.S as far as Wisconsin where it may have mixed with smoke from the large wildfires out in the Western U.S. California/Nevada/Oregon/Washington... A large area of light density smoke from wildfires in central California was moving north covering all of central and northern California (into the Pacific), extending through most of Oregon and into parts of Northwest Washington, and parts of Nevada. Heaviest dense smoke previously observed was not visible due to cloud cover over the source of the fire. Idaho... The Moose Fire in east central Idaho was observed producing light smoke which moved to the east into parts of Montana, Wyoming, South Dakota, Nebraska before running into cloud cover. Southeast U.S... A large area of remnant smoke was observed over Oklahoma, Missouri, Tennessee, Kentucky and the northern regions of Louisiana and Alabama. The smoke may due to a combination of the fire activity in the southeast U.S, the large wildfires in the western U.S, and smoke that traveled from the wildfires in Canada. DUST: Tropical Atlantic and Caribbean Sea... An area of Saharan dust extended across the Tropical Atlantic with a portion extending through the eastern/central Caribbean Sea and north off the southeast coast of the U.S., mainly Florida. Nguyen 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