DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0200Z August 13, 2011
Mid-Atlantic Coast: The Lateral West fire in the Great Dismal Swamp along the VA/NC boarder continues to produce a large amount of moderately dense to locally dense smoke. Besides the immediate vicinity of the fire over southeast Virginia and northeast North Carolina, the smoke has covered much of southern Virginia, spreading west to the Blue Ridge mountains and reaching to Richmond. Extensive cloud cover over North Carolina makes the southern extent of the smoke difficult to discern. Wyoming to the Central Great Plains: A fire in far N Fremont county on the southern flanks of the far SE portions of the Absaroka Range in WY continues to emit smoke that is generally drifting eastward across the state. Remnant smoke from yesterday has continued to move to the east and has reached southeast Iowa and adjoining Illinois. South Central Canada: two fires over far western Ontario near the Manitoba border were producing light to moderately dense plumes of smoke that were drifting to the southwest this evening. Remnant smoke from previous days was seen in patches moving across southern Canada. Separate patches of light smoke were seen over southern Manitoba, south central Saskatchewan and southeast Alberta. The patches over Manitoba and Saskatchewan were drifting to the west while the area in Alberta was lifting north. Ruminski 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