DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0100Z August 6, 2014
Currently: Canada/US: Wildfires burning in the Northwest Territories and northern/central Saskatchewan continue to produce a large area of moderately dense to very dense smoke moving west to northwest across those regions. Heavy residual smoke can be seen stretching over a large section of northern/central Saskatchewan and southeastward into central/southern Manitoba. Heavy smoke also stretches into Nunavut from the fires burning in the Northwest Territories and into northern Manitoba. Moderate smoke extends as far east as northern/eastern Ontario and as far south as northern Minnesota. Light smoke stretches into eastern Quebec and parts of the Great Lakes region. Numerous other wildfires burning in eastern Saskatchewan are producing moderately dense to dense smoke moving north across the region. British Columbia: Smoke from wildfires burning in central and northern regions of British Columbia can be seen moving northwest into northern Alberta and into the Northwest Territories and combining with smoke from wildfires burning in that region. Cloud cover over British Columbia is making difficult to see the full extent of the smoke and exactly how thick it is. Washington/Oregon: Multiple wildfires burning in the central section of the state are producing very heavy smoke moving west toward Idaho. Also, wildfires burning in northeast Oregon and on the Idaho border are seen producing moderately dense smoke moving northeast into the Idaho. East Coast. The smoke seen earlier this afternoon along the Appalachians Mountains is now lingering along the coast line and into the Atlantic. The smoke is very light and mostly diffuse. J Kibler Earlier Today: SMOKE: Canada/U.S: Not much change in location of expansive smoke plume that covers about one-third of the contiguous U.S. and most of Canada. Area of moderately dense smoke extends north from Idaho across eastern British Columbia then cresting around the ridge of high pressure over southern Northwest Territories and stretching southeast to northern Minnesota. The embedded area of heavy, dense smoke is concentrated along British Columbia/Alberta, southern Northwest Territories, central Saskatchewan and southern portions of Manitoba provinces. Wildfires burning across Oregon, Washington, western and central Canada continue to produce thick smoke plumes. Appalachian Mountains: Along the spine of the Appalachian mountains from northern Georgia up through Maine, an area of thin density remnant smoke is observed in this morning satellite imagery. Smoke is believed to be related to the wildfires in Canada and Pacific Northwest. California: A thin density aerosol, believed to be smoke is seen over portions of the central San Joaquin Valley. Northern California is under dense cloud cover this morning, where yesterday wildfires were analyzed and are believed to be the source of the aerosol. 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