DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0150Z July 31, 2022
SMOKE: Northern U.S./Southern Canada... A large area consisting of predominantly light density smoke extends from the northwestern U.S. (California, Oregon, Washington) and southern British Columbia all the way to the east of the Great Lakes, including the southern half of the southern Canadian provinces (Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario), in addition to the majority of the northern U.S. states (Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, the Dakotas, Minnesota, northern Iowa, Wisconsin, northern Illinois, Indiana, Ohio). Patches of medium to heavy dense smoke was observed throughout the provinces, contributing the large area of light density smoke along with the large wildfires in the western U.S. In addition a long patch of medium-density smoke seen extending from North Dakota through parts of the Great Lakes and Ohio Valley into Pennsylvania. California... The McKinney wildfire in northern California produced a massive thick smoke plume seen progressing north/northeastward into Oregon and eastern Idaho. Moderate dense smoke from the fire was seen over west parts of Oregon. Despite cloud cover forming over the fire, denser smoke was still observable over the source of the fire. Idaho... The Moose fire in east-central Idaho was observed produced heavy dense smoke plumes moving eastward into parts of Montana. Another large wildfire just south of the Moose fire was seen contributing to the heavy dense smoke, creating a large patch. DUST: Tropical Atlantic and Caribbean Sea... An area of light-to-moderate density Saharan dust extended across the Tropical Atlantic and over the eastern Caribbean Sea, reaching the island of Puerto Rico. The dust plume extended several hundred miles further to the north of the eastern Caribbean islands. Nguyen 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