DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0230Z July 19, 2014
SMOKE: US/Canada: Wildfires burning across Washington, Oregon, Northwest Territories and northern Saskatchewan are producing a tremendous amount of smoke across central/eastern Canada and most of northern/central US. In Oregon, heavy smoke is emitting southeast from wildfires in the north central section of the state moving SSE to near the California/Idaho border. A wildfire in southeastern Oregon is emitting moderately dense to dense smoke moving east into southern Idaho, northern Utah and western Wyoming. In Washington state wildfires in the north central region of the state are emitting dense to very dense smoke moving east southeast into northern Idaho and northwest Montana. In Northwest Territories and northern Saskatchewan wildfires are producing dense to very dense smoke SSE to southeast across both regions within borders. Residual smoke from all of these wildfires spreads east to the Atlantic Ocean. Moderately dense residual smoke is seen across western/southern Ontario southward into the far northern Plains and Upper Mississippi Valley. Another dense area of residual smoke is seen through the Great Lakes and Ohio Valley region spreading east over the Mid Atlantic (far south as PA) and then northward through the Northeast and along the Canadian coast. Another narrow area spreads over central Quebec and most of southern Quebec. -J Kibler 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