DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0330Z July 07, 2010
Alaska: Cloudiness obscured most of the smoke seen this morning over northern Alaska, but a thin patch of smoke that had drifted southwest across extreme eastern Russia. Northern and Central Canada: A large area remnant of smoke from fires in northern Saskatchewan and Manitoba continues to be present over parts of north and central Canada,as well as over much of Hudson Bay. While some smoke was still seen this evening over northern Nunavut, the bulk was visible over Alberta, southern Saskatchewan, southern Manitoba, and into parts of Montana and North Dakota. In addition, another separate area of smoke with some of moderate density embedded stretched from northwest Lake Superior to eastern Nunavut. Lower Great Lakes/Ohio & Tennessee Valleys/Mid-Atlantic Region/Northeast: A broad area of optically thick aerosol believed to be mostly ozone continues to be seen circulating clockwise over this region under a persistent upper level ridge axis. Earlier in the week some of this aerosol was analyzed as smoke from fires in Canada, so there is a possibility that there still may be some very thin residual smoke trapped under the stagnant ridge axis and mixed in. The aerosols stretched from MO/IL to just off the Mid-Atlantic coast and from northwast GA/north AL to southeast Ontario/south Quebec. Texas: An area of unknown aerosol was seen this evening over central TX and along the Gulf of Mexico coast near Houston. The aerosol was moving slowly westward. Sheffler 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