DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1545Z July 4, 2023
SMOKE: Canada/U.S./Atlantic... Wildfire activity persists across Canada, specially in central-northern British Columbia, northwestern-northern Alberta, northwestern Ontario, and central Quebec. Emissions from those wildfires continued to feed a large plume of predominantly light density smoke covering nearly all of Canada, the northern and eastern 2/3 of the CONUS, and parts of the northwestern Atlantic. Pockets of heavy-density smoke could be seen over central-northern Quebec, while medium-density smoke stretched over central-northern Quebec and northern Newfoundland, in addition to central-northern British Columbia and northwestern Alberta, and dipping into northwestern Washington state. The bulk of the smoke is dispersing eastward across Canada thereby extending over the northern Atlantic and eventually making its way over parts of western Europe. Mexico... Seasonal fire activity along the eastern and western coastlines of Mexico is contributing light smoke across those regions. That plume extended towards the northwestern Gulf of Mexico and Texas merging with the larger plume covering CONUS and Canada. The smoke over Mexico however remained largely stagnant. DUST: Lesser Antilles... Saharan Dust was observed extending across the tropical Atlantic and over the Lesser Antilles. 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