DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1515Z June 15, 2010
Yukon Territory/NW Northwest Territories: A large ball of thin to moderate smoke from fires over N Alaska and Yukon Territories earlier this week has finally gotten caught in westerly flow and is now moving SEward. Current the ball covers a large area from the northern arms of Great Bear Lake to the AK boarder from the Alaska Range to the Brooks Range. E Northwest Territories/Nunavut: Dense smoke from yesterday's output of fires along the SE shores of eastern Great Slave Lake all of E NW Territories and all of continental Nunavut. The most dense area is covering continental Nunavut and the entire area is moving rapidly due E. Washington: A small pocket of thin smoke can still be seen in the Swly flow on the eastern side of a well defined upper level cyclone that continues to sink S over Puget Sound this morning. The smoke covers all of E WA (about to cross over into the N ID stovepipe) and the northern dry plains of OR moving into the NW Blue Mtns. This smoke can be traced back to fires in NE AK and Yukon earlier this week. N US Great Plains/Manitoba/Ontario: A large upper level cyclone is moving across MN but thin to moderate smoke has been pulled Sward into the US from the large fires over N Alberta/Saskatchewan and S NW Territories from last few days. The smoke covers nearly all of SD and ND with a small portion of E MT, and North Central Nebraska being affected as well. The area of smoke is then connected in SE Saskatchewan/W Manitoba into N Manitoba to Hudson Bay on the western side of upper level ridge (fed by SEly wrap back flow from aforementioned cyclone). Nwly jet flow across N Mantioba and N Ontario is pushing moderately dense smoke across N Ontario where it slows down and becomes more dense towards James Bay. Quebec/SE Ontario/New England: Numerous large fires across the forests of central Quebec near Lac Mistassini and near Nemiscau produced dense plumes last night that can still be traced S crossing the St. Lawerence into NW ME, and extending from Nemiscau to Ottawa, respectively. Thin to moderate smoke from earlier output yesterday and Sunday under the influence of strong SSEly jet have covered N VT/NH/ME and SW tip of Nova Scotia intot he Atlantic before it begins to swing more E and NE into strengthening upper level coastal low over Newfoundland. S GA/N FL/Coastal SC/Coastal NC: A large area of mixed aerosols (mostly haze...maybe small amounts of smoke) can be seen across SE AL through S GA/N FL out into the Atlantic near 32N69.5W and further... with an arm/area extending Nward along the coastlines of GA/SC/NC. Please see graphic below for smoke from fires in New Mexico and SE Arizona...as smoke remains attached to their source fires. Gallina 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