Wednesday, June 23, 2010

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


 


Unless otherwise indicated:
  • Areas of smoke are analyzed using GOES-EAST and GOES-WEST Visible satellite imagery.
  • Only a general description of areas of smoke or significant smoke plumes will be analyzed.
  • A quantitative assessment of the density/amount of particulate or the vertical distribution is not included.
  • Widespread cloudiness may prevent the detection of smoke even from significant fires.