DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0115Z July 20, 2013
Northern US Great Plains/Southern Canadian Prairies: Moderate to dense remnant smoke from the large emissions earlier this week across the Yukon Territory continues to slowly drift SE and currently covers the southern 2/3rds of Alberta, southern 1/3rd of Saskatchewan, North Dakota, the NE corner of SD and much of MN nearing the NW WI boarder. British Columbia: A narrow band of thin to moderate smoke of similar origin as above can be seen moving south across the southern 1-2 degrees of BC nearing N Vancouver and affecting N Vancouver Island. It also extends into the Pacific along 50N. California: Thin smoke from the Mountain fire in S CA covers the entire Central Valley of CA and the Sierra Nevadas, Dense smoke from last night's emissions covers the southern valley near Fresno and approaches Monterey Bay. New moderately dense plume is moving SE and out over the Catalina Islands then NW toward the Channel Islands and Santa Barbara. Unknown aerosols/pollutants: Ohio River Valley through Mid Atlantic and S New England is covered with a milky haze on visible imagery that can be moderately dense in locations particularly over St. Louis to Terra Haute, IN and SE quarter of PA, MD, DE, NJ and into Long Island, CT, RI and Cape Cod. 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