DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0100Z June 12, 2023
SMOKE: Canada, Northern, Central and Eastern United States and the Atlantic Ocean… Wildfires continued to burn across far southwestern Northwest Territory, northeastern British Columbia, northern and central Alberta, and northern most of Saskatchewan. The fire activity has emitted dense to very dense smoke that extends east from the Territories to eastern/central British Columbia, all of Alberta, most of Saskatchewan and Manitoba and into northern/central Ontario. The heaviest and most dense smoke stretches from southern Territories/Nunavut, Central British Columbia, over most of Alberta, northern/central Saskatchewan and Manitoba and into northern Ontario and the Hudson Bay. Wildfires also continued to burn across southern/central Quebec and Ontario. Some of the wildfires in Ontario are new though. The smoke from the fires in Quebec have moved in multiple directions with one system across central Quebec into Greenland drawing smoke east-northeastward. A second system over the southern Labrador Sea and Newfoundland has pushed smoke southeastward across the St. Lawrence River Valley and Maine across the Atlantic then incorporating the smoke into the circulation system with smoke seen wrapping around and moving south across the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Some smoke has moved slowly southwestward with some of the smoke drawn east-southeast from the Great Lakes. The wildfires in Ontario have emitted moderately dense to dense smoke with most of it moving towards the south to south southwest. Finally, light remnant smoke from a combination of the fire activity in Canada was seen as far east as the eastern Atlantic and into Europe and as far south as Georgia and Alabama and back through the Mississippi Valley. Eastern Carolinas: A few small fires were observed producing light smoke that has moved north-northeastward across eastern North Carolina. Northern Mexico/Arizona: A fire burning since yesterday has continued to produce light to moderately dense smoke northeast into southwest Arizona and has reached the New Mexico border. SMOKE/AEROSOL: Gulf of Mexico, Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, Central America, western Caribbean.. Light to moderate smoke from widespread burning in Mexico was observed from southern Texas, south across most of Mexico, the Bay of Campeche, northern/central Central America, parts of the western Caribbean, and through the Gulf of Tehuantepec to the western coast of Mexico and the Pacific. This smoke is also likely mixed with with aerosols from industrial activity, particularly over and near the Bay of Campeche and the Yucatan Peninsula. JK 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