DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0300Z June 12, 2015
SMOKE Northwest and Central Canada/North Central US: An area of mostly light to moderately dense remnant smoke was seen over a large section of the central and southern Canadian Plains and extending south into the northern US Plains. The smoke was mostly across central Alberta, central and southern Saskatchewan and much of Manitoba into western Ontario. The smoke also seeps into North Dakota, eastern Montana and northwest Minnesota. This smoke has originated from wildfires primarily in northwest Canada and other fires over portions of Alberta/Saskatchewan from the past few days. A large wildfire in the just northwest of Jasper in Alberta was generating a fresh plume of dense smoke that was rapidly moving to the northeast. Southern British Columbia: A fire near Lytton in southwest British Columbia was producing a plume of mostly light to moderately dense smoke that spread eastward across much of southern British Columbia by sunset. Northeast Canada to Greenland: High level remnant smoke from the wildfires in north central and northwest Canada was seen this evening over northeast Hudson Bay, far northern Quebec and across the Labrador Sea into southern Greenland. Ohio Valley/Mid-Atlantic/New England/Canadian Maritimes: An area of mostly light to moderately dense remnant smoke is again seen this evening from Ohio eastward across West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, Delaware and southern New Jersey and continuing eastward across the western north Atlantic. Texas/Oklahoma/Arkansas/Kansas/Missouri: Thin remnant smoke is seen over northeast Texas, east Oklahoma, much of Arkansas, southwest Missouri, and southeast Kansas. Numerous agricultural fires from the past few days in these areas and along the southern parts of the Mississippi River are the likely cause of this smoke. BLOWING DUST Northwest US: An area of light blowing dust was seen this evening moving from west to east across Washington east of the Cascades. The leading edge of the dust had moved into northern Idaho by sunset. Several small plumes of light dust were seen originating from dry lake beds in south central Oregon and moving south into far northeast California. Ruminski 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