DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0200Z July 13, 2010
Pacific Northwest/Intermountain West: Numerous fires burning across central/eastern Washington and northern Oregon are producing a large area of moderately dense to dense smoke moving east into northern Idaho and western Montana. Light smoke spreads a little farther east into Montana. Northern Plains/Upper Mississippi Valley/South Central Canada: An area of very light smoke can be seen across parts of northeast South Dakota, western Minnesota, western/central North Dakota and moving north into southern Manitoba. The original source of this smoke cannot be confirmed, but we are thinking from the wildfires burning in Saskatchewan during the last week An individual fire not associated with this light smoke is producing moderately dense to dense smoke moving north into southeast Manitoba. Oregon/Nevada/Northern and Central California/Idaho: Areas of dust can be seen blowing east across the above mentioned states. The largest source of the blowing dust is located in northern California, Southern Oregon and western/central Nevada. Southern California: A wildfire burning in northern Santa Barbara County is emitting moderately dense to dense smoke north NW across San Luis Obispo and Kern counties with lighter smoke moving south SE across parts of Ventura, Los Angeles and southern Kern county. Earlier Today: Saskatchewan/Manitoba/Central Northwest Territories/Ontario: Numerous wildfires in northern/central Saskatchewan continue to produce moderately dense to dense smoke moving north. The residual smoke stretches across a large section of central Canada with dense smoke extending in/around northeast Saskatchewan, a small section of western Manitoba and into southern sections of the Northwest Territories. Moderately dense smoke spreads a little farther east and south into Saskatchewan and Manitoba. Light smoke extends well north into the Northwest Territories and much farther south into Manitoba and beginning to reach sections of western Ontario. J Kibler 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