DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1550Z July 30, 2022
SMOKE: Northern U.S./Southern Canada... A large area consisting of predominantly light density smoke extends from the northwestern U.S. (California, Oregon, Washington) and southern British Columbia all the way to the east of the Great Lakes, including the southern half of the southern Canadian provinces (Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario), in addition to the majority of the northern U.S. states (Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, the Dakotas, Minnesota, northern Iowa, Wisconsin, northern Illinois, Indiana, Ohio). Pockets of medium-density smoke are seen over central-northern Montana, across Minnesota, and northern Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio. The McKinney wildfire in northern California showed explosive growth during the early morning hours producing a large plume of heavy density smoke that covered the California-Oregon border and most of southern Oregon, with the bulk of the plume dispersing eastward toward southern Idaho. Eastern Atlantic... A large light density smoke plume was also observed extending off the coast of the southeastern U.S. for several hundred miles over the western Atlantic. The plume is linked to previous days burning in the southern and southeastern U.S. DUST: Tropical Atlantic and Caribbean Sea... An area of light-to-moderate density Saharan dust extended across the Tropical Atlantic and over the eastern Caribbean Sea, reaching the island of Puerto Rico. The dust plume extended several hundred miles further to the north of the eastern Caribbean islands. WS 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