DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0330Z June 9, 2010
Alaska/Northern Canada: The large wildfires in the northern Yukon Territory and in eastern Alaska were still producing very dense smoke through this evening. The smoke was mainly confined to northeast Alaska and northern Yukon. The thinner smoke noted earlier across other areas of northern Canada was not discernible. Fires over northern Saskatchewan between Lake Athabasca and Reindeer Lake were producing moderately dense to dense smoke which was mainly drifting to the south into central Saskatchewan. Northern Quebec and southern Canadian Maritimes: A broad area of remnant light to moderately dense smoke from fires in Alaska and northwest Canada was seen over eastern Hudson Bay and much of northern Quebec. The area was slowly drifting to the east and southeast. Another area of very thin remnant smoke was south of Nova Scotia and east of Cape Cod moving to the east. The eastern edge had reached the southwest tip of Newfoundland by sunset. Hawaii: A large fire on the southwest coast of Maui was generating a long plume of light to moderately dense smoke that was moving to the west-southwest and extended about 250 km into the Pacific. Southwest Gulf of Mexico: A mix of smoke and possibly other aerosols observed this evening from the oil rigs in the Bay of Campeche stretching northwestward along the western periphery of the Gulf and at least as far north as the southern Texas coast. Eastern Gulf of Mexico: Smoke from several fires over the Florida Peninsula had drifted westward and into the eastern Gulf of Mexico. The smoke was thin and reached to about 85W. Northern Gulf of Mexico/Southern Mississippi Valley: An area of thin aerosol likely to be at least partially smoke from fires in the Southeast US over the past few days stretched from the north central Gulf near 27N87W to the northwest and extended over southeast Louisiana and up the Mississippi Valley to near the Missouri Bootheel. Ruminski 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