DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1500Z August 16, 2014
N Canada/US Midwest/Mid-Atlantic US and E Canada: Typical of this summer, pockets/waves of dense smoke continue to track along the westerlies connected by lighter/thinner smoke from large boreal fire complexes mainly in NW territories, N Saskatchewan; across the prairie provinces, into the upper Midwest of the US across E ND/SD and MN into the Great Lakes of WI, MI, and N IN... thinning out to very thin across the Appalachians (E OH, W PA, WV) to a moderately dense N-S line along the leading edge of the jet extending from the Gulf of St. Lawrance across NB, E ME and just of the US seaboard as far south as the VA/NC state line. Within this large plume, a large pocket of very dense smoke can be seen emitting mainly from the large complexs of N Saskatchewan covering Reindeer lake and all of N Manitoba to around 95W but north of the main large lakes of Winnipegois and Winnepeg. Also some thin smoke has been pulled southward around the western side of a cyclone in S IA/N MO... covering E NEB and far NE KS and N and Central MO. Lastly, Cloud cover blankets much of the source regions in N BC, NW Territores and Alberta obscurring much of the area for distinct edge analysis and density determination. Western US: Large fire complexes such as the July, Happy Camp and Coffee fires continue to emit thin to moderately dense smoke moving due east. Smoke from last night and prior days extend east covering the lower 2/3rds of OR, the Snake River Valley of ID and surrounding mountains, N WY, thinning out across NE WY into the Black Hills and Badlands of SD. Additionally thin smoke can be seen east of the Cascades across all of OR and W WA into the Olympics, with some smoke leaking through the gaps in SW WA and N OR. Gallina 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