DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0245Z August 25, 2009
Southern Canada/Northern US: Earlier Today: An area of light to moderately dense smoke spreads across parts of S British Columbia, NE Washington, N Idaho, NW Montana and SW Alberta. A pocket of moderately dense smoke is positioned over S British Columbia/Alberta, and N Idaho/Montana. A second pocket of moderately dense smoke is seen across a large section of NW Montana. Smoke is from wildfires burning in Washington State and most likely British Columbia. The smoke is moving east in direction. Currently: Smoke has spread east into southern central/eastern Alberta, southern Saskatchewan and a large section of northern/central Montana. The wildfires burning in southern British Columbia are producing an area of moderately dense to dense smoke across the province and moving mostly north. Some of the moderately dense smoke has moved south into north central Washington State. Northern Baja/Southern California: A fire located about 120 km south of the California border is producing a large area of moderately dense to dense smoke moving north and reaching extreme southern California (only light smoke reaching this area). A fire just south of the Salton Sea is producing only light smoke moving northeast and nearing the Arizona border. Earlier in the day the fire emitted moderately dense smoke towards the N across the Salton Sea. J Kibler 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