DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1400Z July 10, 2011
Mid-Atlantic Coast: An area of thin smoke and aerosols (likely from Canadian fires and New Mexico fires over the past week) has been left within the col between two larger high pressure areas...likely increasing density ever so slightly. This area covers DE and the Eastern Shore of MD and is nearly stationary or drifting ever so slightly S toward the Virginia area of the Delmarva and extends out into the Atlantic about 350km or near 71W. Georgia/Carolina Coast: Pockets of thin to moderately dense smoke can be seen near the Honey Prairie Fire in S GA and near the Juniper Road fire in SE NC. The smoke from the Honey Prairie Fire is wafting toward the E covering the coastal counties of GA attm. Older remnant/higher altitude smoke will be discussed further below. A plume of thin smoke moves W from the Juniper Road fire this morning, but a crescent shaped area of thin smoke covers NE coastal SC and SE NC and associated offshore zones. Central US: An extremely large area (NM to GA/OH and TX/MS to W Ontario/NE/OH) of thin smoke with isolated pockets of moderately dense smoke is mostly associated with the Las Conchas and Pacheco fires of N NM emitted over the last few days. Considering the enormous areal coverage contributions to the smoke have come from the Honey Prairie Fire described above (particularly over AL/GA), new Gulf of Mexico coastal fires in LA (Cameron/Vermilion and Marsh Island fires---moving NE across LA into extreme SE MS), and northern contribution from fires in wilderness of Alberta/NW Territories (along frontal zone moving across SW Ontario to IA). Moderate pockets of smoke can be seen near and NW of the Las Conchas fire in the valleys of the Rocky Mtns in NM...over the TX/LA boarder north of the Toledo Bend Res.... and along the Mississippi River from near Keokuk, IA to Cairo IL (moving NE into IL). Northern Canada: Large area of thin smoke can be seen covering E portions of NW Territories and nearly all of continental Nunavut with an eastward extension across N Hudson Bay to the north tip of Quebec. Gallina 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