DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1700Z July 28, 2010
Northwest Territories/Nunavut/Saskatchewan/Manitoba/Northern US region: The wildfires in Saskatchewan and southeast Northwest Territory continue to produce just a tremendous amount of smoke throughout Canada. Using GOES-11 morning imagery and early afternoon GOES-13 imagery, dense smoke spreads south from southern Northwest Territory through eastern Alberta, around most of Saskatchewan, southern Ontario and into northern North Dakota and Minnesota. Moderately dense smoke spreads even farther north into the Northwest Territory, south into the northern US and east into northern Manitoba and the Hudson Bay region. A pocket of dense smoke lies across southern Nunavut south into northern Manitoba with another pocket extending across the Hudson Bay. Lighter smoke is in/around the region. British Columbia/Yukon Territory: The wildfire burning in northwest British Columbia continues to produce an area of moderately dense to dense smoke moving northwest with northern sections reaching south Yukon Territory. 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