DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1515Z July 09, 2010
Eastern US: A large area of thick aerosol continues to cover much of the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, Ohio Valley, Southeast, and Gulf States ahead of a front draped across Michigan, Indiana and into Missouri and Oklahoma this morning. Smoke contribution to this area of aerosol is not believed to be significant. Gulf of Mexico: Light area of what is likely Saharan dust and other aerosols continues to remain over the western gulf, eastern Texas and Louisiana. Central Canada: Fires in northern Saskatchewan continue to emit moderate to heavy dense smoke that is moving to the east-southeast. The moderate to dense smoke extends from the fires through central and southern Manitoba into southwest Ontario province. Remnant light smoke continues northeast across James Bay and southern Hudson Bay into northeastern Quebec Province. British Columbia: Remnant moderately dense smoke from a fire in northern British Columbia extends just into southern Yukon as it remains mostly stationary with only a slight southward jog. Cloud cover is preventing detection of continues smoke emission of the fire. Alaska: Area of light smoke seen across much of northern Alaska into Northern Nunavut Province from fires in northwest Alaska which are still emitting higher concentrations of smoke this morning. Liddick 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