DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 2330Z June 16, 2025
SMOKE: Alaska/Pacific Ocean/Canada/Northern and Central United States/Atlantic Ocean... Wildfire activity across northeastern British Columbia, southwestern Northwest Territories, northwestern Alberta, and western Ontario continued to generate light to moderate density smoke, which spread from Alaska, northeastern British Columbia, and Yukon to Quebec and into the North Atlantic Ocean. AEROSOL/SMOKE: Central and Southern Mexico/Pacific Ocean/Gulf of Mexico... Areas of predominantly light density smoke and aerosols attributed to scattered agricultural burning, industrial sources and volcanic emissions throughout Central and Southern Mexico was observed today along the western coast of Mexico into the Pacific Ocean. Smoke was also observed blowing from the Yucatan Peninsula into the Gulf of America. Western CONUS... A cluster of fire was seen in southern Utah emitting mostly light density smoke moving eastward. Two large clusters of fires in southwest New Mexico continued burning and emitting mostly light-moderate density smoke that moved east over Texas and then turned south over the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua. DUST: Tropical Atlantic... Saharan Dust was observed moving west across the Atlantic towards the Caribbean and Lesser Antilles. Ferrante 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 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