DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0102Z August 13, 2010
South Dakota: The smoke originating from the fire in southwest Utah last evening/overnight can be seen as an area of thin smoke about 75km wide (E-W) extending from Central ND to the central SD/NE state line. This smoke continues to drift slowly NE. Michigan/Lake Huron: An area of remnant smoke was seen over eastern lower Michigan and adjoining Lake Huron, Lake Erie and western Ontario peninsula. The source of the smoke is uncertain but possibly from recent agricultural burns over southern Manitoba, eastern North Dakota and northwest Minnesota two nights ago. Eastern Canada: Not much has changed since this morning, the large area of light smoke continued to be seen covering much of Quebec, eastern Hudson Bay and extending past to Nova Scotia though there is a bit of a break across W PEI, N Nova Scotia and SE Newfoundland before it becomes thin to moderate again over the NW Gulf of St. Lawrence. This mass of smoke is likely remnant smoke from the long burning fires in northern Saskatchewan and Manitoba. Gallina/Ruminski/Earle 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