DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0340Z June 6, 2010
Alaska/Canada: A long area of light to moderately dense smoke, as a result of significant fires scattered primarily across northwestern Canada and Alaska, was still seen this evening extending from east-central Alaska eastward across the Yukon, the Northwest Territories, and the western and central portion of the Nunavut Territory of Canada. Smoke continued eastward and southeastward across much of central Canada to southeastern Canada into Ontario. New smoke from fires in northern Saskatchewan and southeast Northwest Territories are contributing to the moderately dense smoke in that area. New Mexico/Western Texas: A batch of light to moderately dense smoke was visible this morning moving to the south, into far western Texas, from several fires detected over south-central New Mexico. Southern California: Some smoke from fires just across the border are producing smoke that is moving into southern California and southwest Arizona. Southern Plains/Gulf of Mexico: Smoke from the ongoing seasonal fires burning in Mexico and Central America was present over the Bay of Campeche and the western part of the Gulf. Some of this light smoke continued northward into eastern Texas and central Oklahoma. Liddick THE FORMAT OF THIS TEXT PRODUCT IS BEING MODIFIED. IT WILL NO LONGER DESCRIBE THE VARIOUS PLUMES THAT ARE ASSOCIATED WITH ACTIVE FIRES. THESE PLUMES ARE DEPICTED IN VARIOUS GRAPHIC FORMATS ON OUR WEB SITE: JPEG: http://www.osdpd.noaa.gov/ml/land/hms.html GIS: http://www.firedetect.noaa.gov/viewer.htm KML: http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/FIRE/kml.html THIS TEXT PRODUCT WILL CONTINUE TO DESCRIBE SIGNIFICANT AREAS OF SMOKE WHICH HAVE BECOME DETACHED FROM AND DRIFTED SOME DISTANCE AWAY FROM THE SOURCE FIRE, TYPICALLY OVER THE COURSE OF ONE OR MORE DAYS. IT WILL ALSO STILL INCLUDE DESCRIPTIONS OF BLOWING DUST. ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS REGARDING THESE CHANGES OR THE SMOKE TEXT PRODUCT IN GENERAL SHOULD BE SENT TO SSDFireTeam@noaa.gov