DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1600Z July 14, 2015
SMOKE: Canada/Northern US: A persistent area of thin to moderately dense smoke stretches from north-central Canada southward over the northern US plain states and approaching the Ohio River Valley. Thin smoke also reaches back toward the west over portions of Alberta and British Columbia. The portion of the smoke that appears to be the most dense is concentrated over southeastern Saskatchewan, southern Manitoba, northeast North Dakota and northern Minnesota. Due to cloud cover over portions of eastern Canada, a second remnant area of thin density smoke was identified in satellite imagery from upstate New York/northern New England, southeastern Quebec and the Canadian Maritime. Both areas of smoke can be attributed to numerous wildfires still burning across central Saskatchewan province, as well as large fires in southern British Columbia and Alaska. Alaska: Smoke from several large wildfires concentrated across central Alaska could be seen covering most of the northern third of the state. Moderately to dense smoke extends across northwest portions of the state and over the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas. 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