DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0230Z June 7, 2009
Western Canada/Alaska: The large area of thin smoke that was seen over western Canada this morning had mostly disappeared from view throughout the day. By this evening, only smaller areas of thin remnant smoke were observed over the northern Northwest Territories, off the British Columbia coast northeast of Vancouver Island, and over and just off the southeast Alaska coast. Great Lakes region to northeast US/east Canada: Thin remnant smoke that spread from Lake Erie to Quebec and Newfoundland this morning had moved east ahead of a cold front through the day and was seen this evening from the southern New England coast stretching northeast along the coast of Maine to southeast Newfoundland. An embedded area of moderately dense smoke was seen that ran parallel to the coast of Maine, but was just offshore. A small area of thin smoke was also seen from Georgian Bay to Lake Ontario. These areas of smoke may have originated in northwest Canada and Alaska, with added contribution from smoke producing fires in North Dakota and south central Canada over the past few days. The smoke has spread great distances over the past few days due to strong upper level jet flow across Canada and the US. -Sheffler THE FORMAT OF THIS TEXT PRODUCT IS BEING MODIFIED. IT WILL NO LONGER DESCRIBE THE VARIOUS PLUMES THAT ARE ASSOCIATED WITH ACTIVE FIRES. THESE PLUMES ARE DEPICTED IN VARIOUS GRAPHIC FORMATS ON OUR WEB SITE: JPEG: http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/FIRE/hms.html GIS: http://www.firedetect.noaa.gov/viewer.htm KML: http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/FIRE/kml.html THIS TEXT PRODUCT WILL CONTINUE TO DESCRIBE SIGNIFICANT AREAS OF SMOKE WHICH HAVE BECOME DETACHED FROM AND DRIFTED SOME DISTANCE AWAY FROM THE SOURCE FIRE, TYPICALLY OVER THE COURSE OF ONE OR MORE DAYS. IT WILL ALSO STILL INCLUDE DESCRIPTIONS OF BLOWING DUST. ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS REGARDING THESE CHANGES OR THE SMOKE TEXT PRODUCT IN GENERAL SHOULD BE SENT TO SSDFireTeam@noaa.gov