DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1502Z July 13, 2013
Northeast Canada: A large area of smoke covers the clear area (and likely obscured under cloud cover as well) of Eastern Canada particularly SE Quebec, Labrador & Newfoundland, N New Brunswick, PEI and the far N tip of Maine out into the North Atlantic SE of the Labrador Strait and S of Greenland. This is particularly dense from Quebec City across the St. Lawrence seaway into S Newfoundland. This smoke is mainly from the large fires that cover Southern portions of the Quebec Boreal forests that currently are smoldering a bit after extreme fire conditions earlier this week. Southern Great Lakes into Indiana: A small tendril of thin smoke from the Canadian fires has been pulled SSW under the influence of the retrograding upper level cyclone over KY. This smoke covers the NW portion of the Ontario peninsula toward Detroit/Saginaw Bay and covers nearly all of IN and extreme W Kentucky. Central Canada into Hudson Bay: Two large fires across N Manitoba between the SE tip of Reindeer Lake and the northern portions of Lake Winnipeg... is producing a plume of moderately dense smoke that can be seen quite well in GIS page link below. These fires and smoke is embedded in a much larger area of thin smoke that can be seen along the southern edge of the clouds across Alberta and Saskatchewan... this then covers all of N Manitoba, far NW Ontario and all of Hudson Bay. US Pacific NW: A pocket of thin smoke from Alaskan/Yukon Territory fires from about a week ago that has wrapped SW over the Gulf of AK and has finally come back ashore and covers the Puget Sound area. A gap of clear air exists over the Cascade Mtns. before been seen again over E WA moving NE into SE BC, S Alberta and connecting to the discussed area of thin smoke above around Central Saskatchewan. Gallina 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