DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0111Z July 29, 2022
SMOKE: Northwestern Canada... An area of light to moderate density smoke with swathes of thick density smoke was detected across southwestern Canada this evening. This was most likely due to fires in Alaska along with fires within the area that is cloud covered preventing the detection of every fire. Fires along The southern Yukon and Northwest Territories was probably responsible for a large area of heavy smoke that was seen stretching over parts of northern British Columbia and Alberta. another swath of heavy density smoke was visible over western Saskatchewan. California/Nevada/Oregon/Utah... A large area of light density smoke from wildfires in central California was was covering all of California (into the Pacific), Oregon, Nevada, Washington, most of Idaho and Montana. This smoke extended north mixing with the ongoing wildfire smoke from Canada. Moderate density smoke can be seen moving around the source in central California. Idaho... The Moose Fire in east central Idaho was observed producing moderate to heavy density smoke expanding south right into cloud cover. DUST: Tropical Atlantic and Caribbean Sea... An area of Saharan dust extended across the Tropical Atlantic with a portion extending through the Caribbean Sea and north off the southern and southeast coast of the U.S. into the central portion of the Gulf of Mexico. 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