DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1830Z June 26, 2011
Ontario/Southern Hudson Bay/Western Quebec/Great Lakes Region: Remnant thin to moderately dense smoke was visible this morning spreading eastward across the eastern half of Ontario, southern Hudson Bay, and western Quebec. Remnant smoke was also moving southward across the upper Great Lakes before wrapping westward across Michigan, northern Indiana, northern Illinois, and Wisconsin. This smoke is mostly from a pair of wildfires in western Ontario with the bulk of the smoke coming from the larger fires northwest of Lake Nipigon. Northwestern and Western and South Central Canada/North Alaska/Northwest US: In addition to the wildfires in northern Alberta and northwest Saskatchewan, numerous wildfires have started to burn across the Northwest Territories over the last two days. Smoke from all of these wildfires can be seen over Arctic ice in the Beaufort Sea and northeast Alaska southeast across northwest Canada. Moderately dense to dense smoke then stretches southward from the fires in north Alberta, northwest Saskatchewan, and southeast Northwest Territories to eastern British Columbia and central Alberta. Patches of smoke can then be seen south of a bank of clouds where it wraps across southern British Columbia, northern Idaho, northwest Montana, southeast Alberta, south Saskatchewan, and into central Manitoba. Southeast US: Thin to moderately dense smoke is present along the coast of the southeast US from northeast Florida to North Carolina. New smoke was being added this morning by the Juniper Road fire in eastern North Carolina. Smoke was also seen from a wildfire along the coast of southern Alabama that was drifting northward across the southern part of the state. Central and Southern Plains/Northwest Mexico: Remnant smoke over New Mexico, north Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, and Arkansas was moving to the east and southeast this morning. Most of this smoke is believed to be from fires in Arizona, New Mexico, and northwest Texas although the fires in Mexico may have also contributed. Remnant smoke from the Mexican fires could be seen moving west and northwest over the country this morning. An additional area of thin smoke was seen over southern Texas that could be from the oil rigs in the Gulf of Campeche. Sheffler 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