DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0300Z August 14, 2010
Eastern Canada: The thin smoke noted earlier over portions of Quebec, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia and Maine has become more diffuse and is difficult to see this evening. Remnants still appear to be over the same region. Pacific Northwest and southwest British Columbia: Numerous wildfires continue to rage over west central British Columbia and generate a large area of moderately dense to dense smoke which is moving to the southwest into the Pacific and across Vancouver Island and then take a more southerly track off the Washington and Oregon coasts. Northern British Columbia and Yukon: Several fires in northwest British Columbia and southeast Yukon have flared up this evening and are producing moderately dense to dense plumes of smoke that are mainly moving to the east and southeast across north central British Columbia. Pacific Northwest: Numerous agricultural fires over southeast Washington and northwest Idaho have produced smoke plumes that are mainly light in density and drifted off to the southwest reaching into northern Oregon. Sierra Nevada Mountains of California: Several fires were noted in the central Sierra, most notably a fire in the Sequoia National Forest, which was producing light smoke that covered much of the central and southern Sierra. An area of moderately dense smoke was associated with the fire in the Sequoia National Forest. Southern US into the Southern Plains: A large area of light to moderate aerosol was seen stretching across the southern US from northern Georgia and Alabama into northern Mississippi and Louisiana and into northeast Texas and much of Arkansas and Missouri. There was a separate area over the Ohio Valley from southern Indiana into southern Ohio and northern Kentucky. This is likely mostly haze pollution with little contribution from remnant smoke. Ruminski 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