DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0110Z June 12, 2021
SMOKE:
Most of the Central and Eastern United States, Eastern Canada, Mexico...
An expansive area of light to moderate smoke, from the combination
of wildfire activity across the western United States and fires over
western Mexico over the past few weeks, was seen from portions of Quebec
and Ontario of southeast Canada through most of the eastern, central
and southwestern United States, western Mexico and extending offshore
through the southern Baja and into the eastern Tropical Pacific Ocean.
Included within this area were also a number of areas of moderate to
localized high density smoke plumes near the ongoing wildfires.
DUST:
Tropical Atlantic Ocean to the Yucatan Peninsula…
A large area of Saharan dust was seen extending through the Tropical
Atlantic Ocean through most of the Caribbean Islands and extending west
through the Caribbean sea to Central America, southeastern Mexico and
the southern Gulf of Mexico.
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: 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)
ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS REGARDING THIS PRODUCT SHOULD BE SENT TO:
SSDFireTeam@noaa.gov