DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1250 June 12, 2021
SMOKE:
Northern/Southeastern Arizona, Western New Mexico...
The Mescal and Telegraph wildfire complexes in Southeastern Arizona,
a complex in northern Arizona, and the Doagy Fire in western New Mexico
were emitting large amounts of mostly moderate to heavy density smoke
generally progressing to the east or northeast.
Utah...
In northern and eastern Utah three smoke plumes attributed to wildfires
were emitting large amounts of mostly moderate to heavy density smoke
progressing northeast into southern Montana in the north and western
Colorado in the east.
Central/North-Central/South-Central U.S., South-Central Canada, Mexico,
Pacific south of Mexico...
An expansive area of light to moderate smoke is the result of a
combination of wildfire activity across the western CONUS and rampant
agricultural burning in western Mexico over the past few weeks. Smoke
off the western coast of Mexico was moving west-southwest, while smoke
across northern Mexico and the CONUS was generally moving eastward. Active
emissions were also observed from the ongoing wildfire activity from
Wyoming to Northern Chihuahua, are moving off toward the east-northeast.
DUST:
Tropical Atlantic Ocean to the southeastern Caribbean Islands…
Thick Saharan Dust was observed extending from Africa across the tropical
Atlantic Ocean across the Lesser Antilles and into the western half of
the Caribbean Sea encroaching on Central America.
Eglin
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: http://www.ospo.noaa.gov/data/land/fire/currenthms.jpg
GIS: ftp://satpsanone.nesdis.noaa.gov/FIRE/HMS/GIS/
KML: http://www.ospo.noaa.gov/data/land/fire/fire.kml (fire)
http://www.ospo.noaa.gov/data/land/fire/smoke.kml (smoke)
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SSDFireTeam@noaa.gov