Wednesday, June 22, 2011

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

 


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.