DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1700Z June 8, 2023
SMOKE: Canada, Central and Eastern United States and the northwestern Atlantic Ocean… Multiple large wildfires across western and central Canada continued to produce large amounts of dense smoke in a plume stretching from northeastern British Columbia to the Saskatchewan/Manitoba border. Moderate-density smoke extended from the eastern Yukon and British Columbia to Hudson Bay and Nunavut, with some smoke continuing southward. Additional fires in Quebec and Ontario were adding moderate to high density smoke emanating westward before joining the main plumes moving southward over the western Great Lakes and eastward across the Ohio River Valley, the Mid-Atlantic, southern New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and southeastern Massachusetts, extending over the Atlantic Ocean south of Nova Scotia and as far as Newfoundland. An additional region of moderate-density smoke was drifting generally southward and extended from the Ark-La-Tex region to southern Georgia and South Carolina. SMOKE/AEROSOL: Southwestern Gulf of Mexico, Mexico, Northwestern Central America and the Pacific Ocean south of southwest Mexico… A large area of low density smoke from ongoing fire activity over Mexico and Central America, mixed with aerosols from industrial activity over Mexico and Central America, was observed over much of southern Mexico, the adjacent coastal waters of the Pacific Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico, the Bay of Campeche, and parts of Belize and Guatemala. MTC 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