DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1700Z June 22, 2010
Canada: A large area of smoke stretches across most of south central Canada due to ongoing fires from British Columbia to Quebec. The smoke is generally moving from west to east from eastern British Columbia across the prairie provinces and southern Hudson Bay into southern Quebec and into the Atlantic. Much of the smoke is light in density but substantial areas of moderately dense to dense smoke were observed in the vicinity of the larger fires over portions of Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and southeast Quebec. Southwest US into the Northern Plains and Midwest: A moderately dense plume of smoke from the Schultz fire near Flagstaff extended northeast to the Four Corners. Residual light smoke from fires over Arizona, New Mexico and Colorado that have been burning for numerous days stretched northeastward from Arizona into the central Rockies, northern Plains and across the Upper Midwest. Louisiana: Light smoke from a fire in Cameron County covered southwest Louisiana and extreme east central Texas. 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