DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1515Z August 26, 2014
Smoke: SE Canada: Thin remnant smoke (from central Canadian fires over the last week) and mixed aerosols can be seen in low levels across New England (particularly ME) across New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, PEI, the Gulf of St. Lawrence and out to southern Newfoundland and across Cape Race into the North Atlantic along 46N looking stagnant or very slow moving possible eastward drift. Montana: Very faint remnant smoke from the NW California complexes (Happy Camp, July and Man Fires) was seen in a narrow WSW to ENE band (about 25km wide) from the Rockies of N Park/SE Meagher county into NW ND. This smoke is likely in a very narrow layer vertically moving ENE. Central Canada: Thin to moderately dense smoke from numerous fires in central Saskatchewan/N Alberta and south of Great Slave Lake with contributions from BC fire output from two days ago can be seen covering nearly all of Saskatchewan, the eastern 1/3 of Alberta and nearly all of S Alberta, as well as NW Manitoba. With highly sheared wind directions, smoke at different levels are obviously moving in numerous directions; however, in general the smoke in the southern portion of the decribed area is moving ESE while the northern portions are moving N and NW under influence of approaching cyclone in Yukon Terrtitories. N Canada: A swath of moderate to dense smoke continues and due eastward drift under weather cloud coverage near the source fires that ring Great Slave Lake covering all of NW Territories and continental Nunavut into extreme northern Hudson Bay. The leading edge is particularly dense from output from two days ago covering far N Quebec, Mansel Island, Coats Island, S Baffin Island and the Hudson Strait. 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