DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1715Z June 12, 2011
Central U.S./Northern Mexico: Another large area of remnant smoke remains over the central U.S. in today's imagery from New Mexico and the Mexican state of Chihuahua eastward into northeastern Mexico and through the southern Plains and lower-Mississippi Valley. The large Wallow fire in extreme eastern Arizona continues to be the main culprit for the large quantity of mostly moderately dense smoke with some embedded heavy smoke across the region. But also the fires that continue to burn through northern Mexico, as well as other wildfires through southern Arizona and western/central Texas are adding to the large area of smoke that continues to remain across such a large area of the U.S. Eastern U.S./Gulf of Mexico: Remnant smoke can be see throughout the southeastern U.S. and all along the Gulf and Mid-Atlantic coast today. The fires that continue to burn in southern and northern Florida as well as the fires in southern Georgia are creating a broad area of moderately dense smoke across the southeast and along the Gulf Coast. The fire near Cape Hatteras also continues to burn with moderately dense smoke sticking around off the Mid-Atlantic coast. Central/Eastern Canada: A large and expansive region of smoke can be seen stretching from extreme eastern Alberta and northern Saskatchewan through Ontario and Quebec and eventually off the eastern Canadian coast. This is all from the numerous fires that continue to burn through Alberta and Saskatchewan. Alaska/Central Yukon: A narrow band of light smoke can be seen from northern Alaska reaching southeastward into parts of southern/central Yukon. This could be remnant smoke from the wildfires in central Canada that is getting wrapped back around the system to the north and/or could also be from the few fires that have been observed over the past week or so through central Alaska. Belge THIS TEXT PRODUCT IS PRIMARILY INTENDED TO DESCRIBE SIGNIFICANT AREAS SMOKE ASSOCIATED WITH ACTIVE FIRES AND SMOKE WHICH HAS BECOME DETACHED FROM THE FIRES AND DRIFTED SOME DISTANCE AWAY FROM THE SOURCE FIRE..TYPICALLY OVER THE COURSE OF ONE OR MORE DAYS. AREAS OF BLOWING DUST ARE ALSO DESCRIBED. USERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO VIEW A GRAPHIC DEPICTION OF THESE AND OTHER PLUMES WHICH ARE LESS EXTENSIVE AND STILL ATTACHED TO THE SOURCE FIRE 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 ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS REGARDING THIS PRODUCT SHOULD BE SENT TO SSDFireTeam@noaa.gov