DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0430Z July 05, 2010
Alaska: The smoke observed this evening over Alaska was associated with and still attached to active fires burning mainly over northwest Alaska. Please see the graphic depictions at the web addresses below. Northwest into Central Canada: A large area of residual smoke from fires in northern Saskatchewan and Manitoba has recirculated around a large cyclonic storm system and extended from the Arctic Coast, including Victoria and Banks Islands, down through western Northwest Territory and then curling across northern and central Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba, just reaching the western edge of Hudson Bay. The smoke over the prairie provinces was mainly moving east and was moderately dense to dense. Eastern Canada: An area of light smoke was seen on the edge of the GOES-East satellite imagery over northern Quebec extending across Baffin Island and the Davis Straight. This is likely residual smoke from the fires in central Canada over the past several days. A separate, narrow patch of thin smoke extended from east to west across much of the Gulf of St Lawrence just reaching western Island of Newfoundland. Central and Eastern Great Lakes/Ohio and Tennessee Valleys: A broad area of aerosol was seen over this region under a stagnant, hot air mass. Much of this aerosol is though to be haze pollution but there is likely some residual smoke mixed in. Ruminski Smoke primarily from fires over northern Saskatchewan Province in west Central Canada stretched across a good portion of central Canada. Details concerning the smoke density and overall coverage though could not be determined due to widespread cloudiness over some of this region. 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