DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0400Z July 8, 2013
Smoke: Canada: Smoke from wildfires taking place in Alaska and British Columbia/Alberta have created a area of of moderate smoke that is moving SE from NW Alberta down through the province into central Saskatchewan. The eastern region of light smoke in Quebec visible earlier has shifted SE, which is now covering areas of inland NE Quebec over the Gulf of St Lawrence, Anticosti Island, and south into NE New Brunswick, grazing Maine and Quebec City. The wildfires burning north of the smoke in Quebec are most likely the product. An area of light density smoke visible earlier in northern Ontario is moving SE through the province into Quebec. This smoke is a product of the wildfires burning in the provinces in to the north. US: An area of light density smoke is visible across portions of the Central Plains and Upper/Central Mississippi Valley regions this morning is still current and has has shifted a bit in the SW region to the west. Areas now affected with smoke include the state of New Mexico and north through the eastern half of Colorado and even through the southern regions of South Dakota and Minnesota. The region of thin to moderate density smoke visible this morning and throughout the day is remnant smoke of the due to the wildfires in Canada as well as local wildfires taking place in the US. There is a possibility that the smoke could extend far north into Quebec, or farther west past Colorado, but due to cloud cover in the area there is a a level of uncertainty. Aerosol: US Northwest: A pocket of unknown aerosol of light density is visible in the western US extending from central Oregon NE through SE Washington and the western half of Idaho. It is unknown the makeup or origin of the aerosol, or if related to the wildfires currently in progress in the south in Nevada. Oegerle THIS TEXT PRODUCT IS PRIMARILY INTENDED TO DESCRIBE SIGNIFICANT AREAS OF 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