DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1745Z August 3, 2013
South Central US: Light remnant smoke can be seen over Texas/Louisiana and into the northwest Gulf of Mexico. This area is mostly from fires in Canada and the northwest US which has moved south the past few days. Canada/Great Lakes: A large area of light to moderate smoke stretched from Yukon and Northwest Territories provinces and into the western Hudson Bay and then south across northeast Saskatchewan, much of Manitoba, and western Ontario provinces before ending over the Great Lakes region. This smoke is residual from fires that were burning across Alaska and Northwest Canada recently. Pacific Northwest: An area of remnant light to moderate smoke remains over much of southern Oregon from fires that continue to burn in the southwest portion of the state. Nevada/California: A small area of light smoke is moving northeast over central Nevada which is from a wildfire burning in central California for the past few days. This same fire continues to produce smoke that remained over central California overnight and into this morning. Liddick 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