DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1700Z August 07, 2014
Currently: Canada/US: Wildfires continues to produce very heavy smoke across parts of northern Saskatchewan, Manitoba and into Hudson Bay/Ontario region. Light smoke now spreads as far east as western Quebec and south into the Northern Plains, Mississippi Valley and into the Great Lakes region. Some of the smoke in central Canada/US is from the wildfires in Washington, Oregon, Idaho and California and that is combing with this smoke and moving into sections of the Great Lakes region and central/eastern Ontario and eastern Quebec. British Columbia: Wildfires continue to produce moderately dense to dense smoke pushing east toward Alberta. The residual smoke is moving across sections of northern British Columbia, northern/central Alberta and into the region of Saskatchewan and Manitoba where the numerous fires and smoke are located. US Pacific Northwest/California The wildfires in Washington, northeast Oregon/Idaho border continue to produce heavy smoke east-northeast into central/northern Idaho, western/northern Montana, southeast British Columbia, southern Alberta and southwest Saskatchewan. The smoke then merges with the Canadian wildfire smoke across the central Canada and northern Plains region as mentioned above. Adding to the smoke issue, the fires burning in northern California and the Washington/Oregon wildfires over the last few days, smoke from both of these fires are pushing south across most of California to the southern sections of the state and north across southern/central Oregon. J Kibler Earlier Today: 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 east. Heavy residual smoke is observed stretching over a large section of northern/central Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and south through Quebec all the way into the Great Lakes region. British Columbia: Smoke from wildfires burning in central British Columbia can be seen moving northeast into northern Alberta and into the Northwest Territories before merging with smoke from wildfires burning in that region. US Pacific Northwest: Multiple wildfires burning in central Washington, northeast Oregon, and northern Idaho are producing very heavy smoke moving northeast into southern British Columbia and southern Alberta. Additionally, wildfires in North central California are producing smoke that's moving northeast. Ramirez 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