DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1502Z July 18, 2010
Northeast US: A large area of remnant smoke from fires in central Canada emitted earlier this week continues to be thin to moderately dense and move due east across the Gulf of Maine across the SE New England, Long Island, covering all of New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland into N VA. Minnesota: A small extension of Canadian smoke can be seen across the length of western MN. It is generally thin and moving SSE at this time, though may begin to shift more SE to E later. Central Canada: Moderately dense smoke covers a very large portion of Central Canada (N Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Nunavut and E NW Terr.) and the Hudson Bay from fires in N Saskatchewan over the past week. NOAA Polar and MODIS imagery shows that the most dense smoke covers large portions of E NW Terr. And continental SW Nunavut as well as a large streak across the northern Hudson Bay. A well defined low just NW of the Manitoba lakes is pulling some very thin smoke around its western and southern periphery across SE Saskatchewan. Southeast: General area of haze and unknown aerosols can be seen south and east of the frontal boundary and extends from the NE Gulf (near Panama City) across SE AL, N FL, GA and much of SC before it extends due east into the Atlantic. British Columbia: A fire in central British Columbia produced smoke last night can be seen in two areas. The first and larger area is due east of the fire along the Alberta/BC line near 120W before the boarder follows the Rockies... though most of the smoke is in eastern BC, the moderately dense smoke is near the boarder and extends into western Alberta. The second area is thin smoke that moved more SE and is over Kinbasket Lake toward Mt. Columbia. Galling 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