DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1700Z August 16, 2009
California and the Southwest: Remnant smoke from the 'Yuba' fire along the Yuba/Nevada county border, the 'Shu Lightning' fire in Shasta county and the 'Lockheed' fire in Santa Cruz county in mainly thin smoke and drifting to the south. The smoke is over parts of the Sacramento and northern San Joachin Valleys and also is along and off the coast of Santa Cruz county southward. Smoke from the 'La Brea' fire in northern Santa Barbara county is light to moderately dense and initially drifts south over the Channel Islands. The smoke then shifts eastward across Orange, Ventura and southern San Bernardino counties and into northwest Arizona where the smoke is quite thin. Another patch of thin smoke was over the southern Arizona/New Mexico border. New England/New York: An area of thin smoke was seen over much of New York and southern New England and continuing off the coast just south of Nova Scotia and Newfoundland. Ruminski More information on the areas of smoke described above as well as 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.osdpd.noaa.gov/ml/land/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