DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1800Z July 01, 2024
SMOKE: Alaska/Northern Canada... Large wildfires through Alaska and Northern Canada continued producing massive moderate to thick smoke plumes moving east and southeast through central Alaska and northern Canada. A large area of light density smoke extended from the Bering Sea and western edge of Alaska, east through the majority of Canada and regions near the North Pole, to the Labrador Sea and past the southeast coast of Greenland. Central and Eastern United States... A large area of light density remnant smoke attributed to a combination of smoke from large wildfires throughout Alaska and northwestern Canada, and seasonal fire activity throughout the Central United States was seen covering eastern Oklahoma, southern Missouri, Arkansas, northern Louisiana, Mississippi and southwestern Alabama. YL 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