DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0245Z July 6, 2014
SMOKE: New England/Eastern Canada: An elongated plume of remnant smoke believed to have originated from numerous wildfires located across the Northwest Territories province in Canada is seen this evening positioned from coastal New England northward to northern Newfoundland. Northern/Northwest Canada: Relative expansive area of light to moderately dense smoke stretches from western Hudson Bay westward to the Yukon Territory. Numerous wildfires continue to produce smoke this evening and over the course of the past few days have generated all the smoke analyzed across northern and northwest Canada. The majority of these fires are around the Great Slave Lake and northern Saskatchewan. California: Light to heavy dense smoke being produced by the Butts wildfire in Napa county extends across a good portion of northern California this evening. Utah: An area of remnant smoke has remained nearly stationary across northern/central Utah this afternoon/evening. Area of smoke is likely the result of the Lages wildfire located across northeastern Nevada and one that broke out this afternoon across northeastern Utah. HAZE/DUST: Southern/Central US: An area of aerosols is seen across much of the gulf coast states and north over portions of the Central Plains this evening and believed to be comprised of haze/pollution and Saharan dust. Portions of extreme southeast Texas/southwestern Louisiana are also dealing with light to moderately dense smoke from a fire located across southwestern Louisiana. Warren 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.ospo.noaa.gov/Products/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