DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 2300Z June 10, 2025
SMOKE: Canada/Central and Eastern United States/Atlantic Ocean/Europe... Wildfire activity through central and western Canada continues to produce moderate to thick smoke that extends east-southeastward into the Northern Plains, Midwest, and Great Lakes. The smoke from there is drawn northeastward across the northeastern CONUS and eastern Canada. The smoke was then observed moving around the southern periphery of a cyclone and out eastward between Iceland and the British Isles and into mainland Europe. Across the northern tier of Canadian Territories, moderate to thick smoke was seen accumulating from previous days and concentrating due to flow coming down from the pole, which may also contain some smoke from wildfire activity in Siberia. AEROSOL/SMOKE: Central-Southern Mexico/Pacific Ocean/Gulf of America... An area of light-to-moderate density smoke and aerosols, attributed to widespread seasonal fire activity, gas flaring, and industrial sources throughout central and southern Mexico was observed extending over central-southern Mexico, the southern and western Gulf of America, and the Pacific Ocean off Mexico’s southern coastline. Some is also seen being drawn around the northern and western sides of Tropical Storms Barbara and Cosme in the Eastern Pacific. DUST: Tropical Atlantic... Saharan Dust was observed blanketing the tropical Atlantic from Africa to the central Caribbean, moving into the western Caribbean. Hosley 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