DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0200Z July 14, 2023
SMOKE: Canada, United States, Northern Mexico, Atlantic Ocean, Northeastern Pacific Ocean... Major wildfires continue to burn across portions of Canada with most activity seen in western Quebec and in western and northwestern Canada. High density smoke is seen covering much of western and northwestern Canada and then extending south and east through southern Saskatchewan, southern Manitoba, Ontario and through the Northern Plains and Upper Midwest of the United States. Farther to the east, smoke from the western Canadian fires was combining with high density smoke from the western Quebec fires and was extending through much of western and northern Quebec. The exceptionally large surrounding area of thin density smoke, associated mostly with the Canadian wildfires, covers a sizable portion of Canada and the United States, including eastern Alaska, southwestern United States, some of the northeastern Pacific off of northwest Canada as well extending across the North Atlantic Ocean to near western Europe. DUST: Caribbean Region and the Western Atlantic Ocean… An area Saharan Dust was seen over the western Caribbean Sea and western Caribbean Islands. Another area of Saharan Dust was seen stretching across much of the Tropical Atlantic Ocean through the eastern Caribbean Islands and into the eastern Caribbean Sea and north of the Caribbean Islands in portions of the southwest Atlantic Ocean. 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