DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0300Z June 23, 2011
Eastern US: Much of the western Atlantic/eastern U.S. coast from northern Florida to southern Virginia is covered with moderately dense to dense smoke that is originating predominantly from the Honey Prairie wildfire in the Okefenokee Swamp, GA and the Duckett fire in North Carolina. A larger area of thin density smoke is visible over much of Florida and the northeast Gulf of Mexico as far north as Cape Cod. North central US/southern Canada: A low pressure center of circulation is present over Minnesota this evening and is wrapping in smoke from the wildfires in and around northern Alberta. This remnant thin density smoke is forced south into eastern Montana, the Dakotas, and eastern Nebraska. The smoke is additionally observed on the north and northeast side on the low stretching laterally across Ontario, Quebec, and the far northeast U.S. Arizona/New Mexico/northern Mexico: Light to moderately dense remnant smoke is visible near the Arizona-New Mexico border that originated from the Wallow wildfire. Several wildfires along the Sonora-Chihuahua border in northern Mexico are producing a large area of thin density smoke that stretches as far west as the Gulf of California. Northern Canada: Wildfires in northeast Alberta, northern Saskatchewan, and southern Northwest Territories are collectively responsible for a light to locally dense smoke plume that is moving northwest across Northwest Territories and Yukon Territory as far west as northeast Alaska. Ramirez 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