DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1550Z June 28, 2023
SMOKE: Canada, Eastern and Central United States, Atlantic Ocean… The major wildfires across portions of Canada continue with a large area of smoke over much of Canada and extending to the south over the Central and Southeastern United States. The smoke also extended well off the east coasts of Canada and the United States over the northern and central Atlantic to western portions of Europe. To the west, some of the thinner density smoke had spread to the west and south to just off the southwestern coast of Canada and the Pacific Northwest United States and into the far northeastern Pacific Ocean. Within this area, the thickest smoke was located from western Quebec through southern Ontario and into portions of the Midwestern and Upper Midwest of the United States and also over northern Alberta, the southern Northwest Territories and northern British Columbia. SMOKE/AEROSOL: Southern United States, Mexico, Gulf of Mexico, Northwest Central America and the Pacific Ocean south and southwest of Northwest Central America and southwest Mexico... Seasonal fires continue to burn mainly in Mexico resulting in a large area of thin smoke extending from the southern United States through much of the Gulf of Mexico, nearly all of Mexico, northwest Central America and the Pacific Ocean extending well to the south and southwest of the northwest coast of Central America and the southern coast of Mexico. It is likely that the smoke from Mexico merges with smoke from the Canadian fires somewhere over the south central and southeastern United States. Some aerosols from industrial activities in Mexico and Central America may also be present within the smoke in this region. Dust: Northeastern Caribbean Islands…. An area of Saharan Dust continues to move across the Tropical Atlantic Ocean and was seen extending west into the northeastern Caribbean Islands. Hanna 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