DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1815Z June 8, 2010
Alaska/Northwestern Canada: The large wildfires in the northern Yukon Territory and in eastern Alaska were still seen producing very dense smoke this morning which was spreading west and southwest across northeast Alaska. In addition, a large plume of thin to moderate density remnant smoke likely originating from these fires extended from just north of northwest Alaska southeastward to extreme northern Manitoba and the western extremity of Hudson Bay. East Central to Southeast Canada/Northeastern US: Thin to moderate density smoke was observed around the edges of Hudson Bay across parts of western Quebec/northern Ontario and stretched over southeast Ontario/New York/Vermont/New Hampshire/Maine before reaching out over the Atlantic. Here the remnant smoke plume joined other thin smoke and mixed aerosols that had collected behind a frontal boundary and extended northward across parts of Nova Scotia and Newfoundland. Most of the remnant smoke coming southeastward across Canada is believed to be from the fires in Alaska/Yukon Territory but the lingering smoke and aerosols along the frontal boundary are of unknown origin. Southern Gulf of Mexico: A mix of smoke and possibly other aerosols was present this morning over much of the southern Gulf of Mexico stretching along an old frontal boundary from the Straits of Florida to approximately 150 miles due south of Louisiana. From here aerosols mixed with clouds and likely other remnant smoke from Mexico over the western Gulf/Texas coast into the Bay of Campeche. Northern Gulf of Mexico/Southern US Plains/Southeast US: A thin aerosol believed to be smoke from fires in the Southeast US over the past few days was oriented from Oklahoma east to Arkansas and then southeast across Mississippi/Louisiana to the west coast of Florida. Another small area of remnant smoke was present just northeast of Florida moving southwestward. -Sheffler 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