DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1930Z July 30, 2010
Western/Central Canada/Northern US Plains: A large and expansive area of moderate to dense smoke covered a large section of western and central Canada and extended into the north central part of North Dakota. The plume of smoke was stretched from the Yukon Territory and northern British Columbia across the Northwest Territories and western Nunavut, southeastward over parts of Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Hudson Bay, Ontario, and reached western Quebec. The large area of smoke appears to have originated from two areas of concentrated fire activity; northern Saskatchewan and the southeastern portions of the Northwest Territories and northwestern British Columbia and the southern Yukon Territory. Another area of moderately dense smoke over portions of southern British Columbia and Alberta was the result of numerous fires burning in south central British Columbia and a few in north central Washington state. Much of this second area of smoke was being wrapped into an upper low over northwest Alberta. Northeast Canada: A thin plume of aerosols believed to be remnant smoke from the wildfires in western/central Canada was seen along a frontal boundary being swept off the coast of Labrador. Mid-Atlantic/Northeast US: A band of aerosols believed to be remnant smoke transported from the Canada fires southeastward across the Great Lakes yesterday was seen stretching along a frontal boundary from southeast VA to New Brunswick, Canada. Kansas: A thin patch of aerosol that may have been remnant smoke from several agricultural fires in the state yesterday was seen over the central part of Kansas this morning. California: Two small patches of smoke were seen over southern California this morning that originated from the Crown fire yesterday. The remnant smoke was generally thin in nature. 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