Thursday, August 26, 2010

DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1730Z August 26, 2010

North/Central US and SW Canada:
Multiple wildfires across western/central Oregon are producing light to
moderately dense smoke across north/central Oregon, eastern Washington,
northern Idaho, extreme southeastern British Columbia, southwestern
Alberta and into central/eastern Montana. A pocket of dense smoke is
seen from south/central Alberta southward into Northern Montana.

Central US:
Remnant smoke from the fires burning in Oregon and Idaho can been seen
moving southeast across NE South Dakota, southern Minnesota, most of
Iowa and northern Missouri.

Southwest Ontario/Great Lakes:
Residual smoke from wildfires burning in British Columbia during the
past week is moving across southwestern Ontario and the Great Lakes
region. This thin area of light smoke is moving E-SE across southwest
Ontario, extreme NE Minnesota, Lake Superior, NW upper Michigan, NE
Wisconsin, central Lake Michigan, southwestern lower Michigan, Lake Erie,
NE Ohio and into NW Pennsylvania.

Eastern Texas/Louisiana:
An area of mixed aerosols can be seen across eastern Texas to the lower
Mississippi River Valley and into the Gulf of Mexico. This area likely
contains some smoke from the agricultural fires burning throughout
Louisiana and along the Mississippi River Valley into Arkansas and
Mississippi.

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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

 


Unless otherwise indicated:
  • Areas of smoke are analyzed using GOES-EAST and GOES-WEST Visible satellite imagery.
  • Only a general description of areas of smoke or significant smoke plumes will be analyzed.
  • A quantitative assessment of the density/amount of particulate or the vertical distribution is not included.
  • Widespread cloudiness may prevent the detection of smoke even from significant fires.