Saturday, June 14, 2009

DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0130Z June 15, 2009

Central Canada/Northern US
A large area of remnant smoke stretches across sections of central Canada
and the Northern US.  The smoke is moving E-ESE  and edging into E Canada
and US.  An area of moderately dense smoke stretches across extreme S
Manitoba into NE North Dakota and N Minnesota. A pocket of moderately
dense to dense smoke is located in central Manitoba stretching across
Lake Winnipeg.  Another pocket of moderately dense to dense smoke moved
across parts of central Saskatchewan today.  The overall area of smoke
extends across E Alberta, most of Saskatchewan, S and C Manitoba and
into S and C sections of Ontario.  In the US the smoke is across the
extreme northern edges of Montana, North Dakota, Minnesota and Wisconsin.

Also in Canada, numerous wildfires are burning producing plumes of
moderately dense to dense smoke moving easterly in direction.  The smoke
plumes are attached to the source.  Most of these wildfires are located
in N and C Alberta and Saskatchewan.  The smoke from these wildfires
are combining with the remnant smoke from fires burning over the last
few days.

Northwest Mexico:
Numerous fires in the states of Sonora, Chihuahua, Durango and Sinaloa
in NW Mexico are producing light to moderately dense smoke.  The smoke
is moving in several directions.

Panhandle of Florida:
A fire burning in E central Okaloosa county is producing moderately
dense to dense smoke moving S into the Gulf of Mexico.

Arizona:
Several wildfires across the state are emitting thin to moderately dense
attached plumes of smoke.

J Kibler

More information on additional areas of smoke associated with these
fires and others can be found at the locations listed below.

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













 


Unless otherwise indicated:
  • Areas of smoke are analyzed using GOES-EAST and GOES-WEST Visible satellite imagery.
  • Only a general description of areas of smoke or significant smoke plumes will be analyzed.
  • A quantitative assessment of the density/amount of particulate or the vertical distribution is not included.
  • Widespread cloudiness may prevent the detection of smoke even from significant fires.