DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1615Z July 7, 2023
SMOKE: Canada/Northern and Central/Eastern U.S./Atlantic... Wildfire activity continued across Canada through central and northeastern British Columbia, northern and central Alberta, south-central Northwest Territories, central Ontario, and northwestern Quebec. Light density smoke extends across a very large area from eastern Alaska east into the Territories and the rest of Canada and then into the North Atlantic. In the U.S., light density smoke spreads across the Rocky Mountain region through most of Montana, northern and eastern Wyoming/Colorado, into the northern Central Plains and east across the Ohio and Tennessee Valley and northern Mississippi Valley and across the eastern U.S to as far south as northern Alabama and Georgia. A large area of dense to very dense region of wildfire smoke extends across most of British Columbia, Alberta and east into western Saskatchewan and south into northern and eastern/central Montana, into North Dakota and southern Manitoba. The heaviest smoke in this region extends across southern regions of the Territories, across northeast British Columbia and into section of western Alberta and slowly reaching central Alberta. Another region of heavy dense smoke extends across eastern Greenland and the North Atlantic. DUST: A thin area of Saharan Dust was detected across the tropical Atlantic and extending into the eastern/central Caribbean Sea. 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