Wednesday, July 17, 2024

DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0030Z July 18, 2024

SMOKE:
Canada/United States/Pacific Northwest/Pacific Ocean/Atlantic Ocean...
A significant amount of mixed density smoke attributed to a combination
of seasonal fire activity in the United States and numerous wildfires
throughout northern Canada, Washington State, Oregon, California,
Idaho, Montana, Wyoming and Utah continued to be seen throughout today
covering an extensive area including northern Canada, the majority of the
Continental United States and parts of the Pacific Ocean off the coast of
the Northern Pacific. This mixed density smoke was seen extending east
through the entirety of Canada from the Northwest Territories into the
Labrador Sea before extending further east into the Northern Atlantic
Ocean. Areas of moderate density smoke were seen moving east from the
central region of the Northwest Territories into northeast Alberta,
reaching central Saskatchewan. Areas of the moderate smoke progressed
further south into the U.S., completely covering the northern Central
Plains and the Midwest regions with a mass of heavy density smoke
seen within the northern Western U.S. region. This heavy density
smoke originating from the wildfires present in northern Canada was
seen extending east-southeast within the larger area of moderate smoke
within Canada, however, the thick smoke remained within the boundaries
of the central parts of the Northwest Territories and Saskatchewan and
northern Alberta. Several wildfires within the Pacific Northwest were
seen emitting plumes of moderate to thick density smoke that continues
to accumulate into the larger mass of thick density smoke seen moving
east-southeast through Oregon, Idaho, Montana and Wyoming.

DUST:
A moderate amount of Saharan dust continued to be observed over the
Atlantic Ocean with light amounts of Saharan dust seen over the majority
of the Caribbean Sea reaching near Puerto Rico.

Currier

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