DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0015Z June 15, 2007
Alberta: Fires north and west of Lake Claire in Woods Buffalo Nat'l Park in NE Alberta continue to pump out good amounts of smoke, but less than the last few days and of lower density. The area of smoke that can be seen through weather clouds that are moving into the area from the NW, it is bound to the south by 58N, to the west by 113W and the east by 111.5W. The area is moving SSE slowly. Quebec/Ontario: Numerous large wildfires between the large lakes of East Central Quebec are producing copious amounts of very dense smoke. This very dense smoke is mixing with developing cumulus clouds from the NW making it difficult to distinguish cloud from smoke. The very dense area is bound by 50N72W to 51N71W to 52N71W to 53N69W to 53N67W to 52N67W to 49.5N70W to 49.5N72.5N back to 50N72W. To make it even more difficult, the area is bifurcated from SW to NE by a nearly 180 degree shear zone where flow south of the fires is transporting smoke from NE to SW extending the very dense area into moderate to eventually thin smoke extending as far SW as the Georgian Bay around French River with an average width around 200km. North of the shear zone the smoke is moving NE to E but would begin to round back SE to SW as it neared SW Labrador. A separate fire near the town of Nemiscau around Lac Evans and Lac Giffard is producing thin to moderately dense smoke that is moving due east in a 50km wide fan as far east as 75W or around 140km east of the fire. Gallina