DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1800Z June 21, 2010
Canada: A large area of smoke stretches across most of Canada. The smoke starts in east central British Columbia where anything from light to dense smoke moves eastward across central Alberta and into western Saskatchewan. The smoke source are from fires burning across central/northern British Columbia. This smoke then combines with the Saskatchewan fires that are also producing a large area of smoke. Once again anything from light to very dense smoke is moving east into central/southern portions of Manitoba and a little farther south over Ontario and Quebec. The smoke stretching across Ontario and Quebec from these above mentioned wildfires is light to moderately dense in nature. Next, numerous wildfires burning in western Quebec are emitting light to moderately dense smoke moving eastward. Residual smoke from these wildfires are moving northeastward into the Canadian Maratimes and is getting caught up in a low off the coast. Overall there is good westerly flow taking all of the smoke from western to eastern Canada from various fire sources. Southwest US: The wildfire near Flagstaff, Arizona continues to produce an area of moderately dense to dense smoke moving northeastward into eastern Utah and western Colorado. This area of smoke combines with residual smoke from yesterday's burning and moves eastward across southern Wyoming and northern Colorado. Then the smoke combines with the smoke that moved northward yesterday from the New Mexico wildfires and is moving east northeastward across Nebraska and western Iowa. The wildfires in New Mexico are beginning to show signs of life in the early afternoon GOES-13 imagery. Louisiana: A fire burning in central Cameron county Louisiana (southwest Louisiana) is producing a large area of smoke moving westerly across the source county, Calcasieu county, the Gulf of Mexico and slowly toward the Texas line. A large area of residual smoke from this same fire burning yesterday continues to move north across eastern Texas and western Louisiana. J Kibler 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