DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0115Z June 25, 2010
N Central Canada: Copious amounts of dense smoke continue to pour from the fires across Saskatchewan,W Manitoba and South Central NW Territories. The smoke is particularly dense over the source areas and upper level flow is relatively stagnant between large upper trof over Hudson Bay and the amplifying ridge over BC/Alberta...as such smoke is being pulled NW across N Saskatchewan and SC NW Territories to cover the Great Slave Lake...but cannot progress Eward at all. S Central Canada/Great Lakes/Quebec: As described above...but the flow is toward the SE into the Great Lakes region covering the southern half of Manitoba but then thinning into a narrow ribon across far SW Ontario (SW of Nipigon) where it broads out...SW of the axis of the plume the flow wraps back W then N in a small but well defined anticyclone covering all of MN, WI, IA and N IL, N IN, and Lake Superior and UP of MI. North and East of the axis across Lower MI...the turns cyclonically toward the upper level shortwave exiting across the St. Lawrence Seaway... so dense smoke covers Lake Huron, Lower MI, Lake Erie, Lake Ontario then thins out to moderately dense ribbon of smoke as it continues NE to cover much of SE Quebec...though will likely trek over New England overnight into tomorrow. Smoke from the North Central Quebec fires is thin to moderate in density but is moving in plumes due SE in the lower levels of the atmosphere. Florida/NE GoM: About 4-5 fires across the Panhandle, and western coast of FL along with a fire over Central FL have contributed to detatched plumes of thin smoke that can be tracked across the NE Gulf of Mexico. Additionally, surface oil fire near the sunken Deepwater Horizon Platform is producing a smoke plume that is moving due west nearing the tip of the MS delta. Utah/NW CO/S WY: A wildfire in S Duchesne county, UT in the Ashley Nat'l Forest produced a puff of moderately dense smoke that has been racing NE and currently is seen just off the NW ridge line of the Rockies in far South Central WY and the far NW corner of CO. A very thin line of smoke still connects back to the source, though is very faint. S California (Salton Sea to Sea of Cortez): Numerous Agricultural fires have produced burst of thin to moderately dense smoke that move rapidly toward the NE cover parts of extreme SE California along the Colorado river into SW AZ. 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