DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0045Z June 24, 2010
Eastern Canada: Remnant moderate to dense smoke from the Quebec fires yesterday could be seen covering a large portion of S Labrador and extending ESE along a strong jet into the North Central Atlantic. Large amounts of clouds obscured the fire areas through much of the afternoon and evening eventually covering the smoke in Labrador as well. Central Canada/Extreme N US Great Plains: The large fires across the northern woods of Saskatchewan (and West Central Manitoba) continue to pour out copious amounts of dense smoke that is moving SE covering nearly all of Saskatchewan and southern half of Manitoba connecting up with the large area of dense smoke from yesterday's output that is currently seen from S Lake Winnepeg over Lake of the Woods in N MN over to Lake Nipigon and nearing Akimiski Island in James Bay. Thin to moderate smoke extends further S into the US nearly covering all of ND, the NE corner of SD and the NW 2/3rds of MN. Arkansas: Remnant smoke from the fires over SW LA 2 days ago can be seen over AR into South Central MO and far E OK...it is thin to moderately dense but is also likely mixing with pollutants and haze in the vicinity and is becoming difficult to discern if it is dominantly smoke any more. US East Coast: A very large area of muk and haze can be seen caught in the center of the upper level anticyclone centered over NC...the haze is moderately dense over all fo VA/MD/NC/SC and coastal maritimes. Thinner haze can be seen over OH, E KY and E TN, N GA. 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