DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0400Z June 13, 2010
Alaska/Northwest Canada: An area of light to moderately dense remnant smoke was seen over much of the north slope of Alaska and extending into the adjacent Arctic waters. An arm of the smoke extended toward Banks Island in the Beaufort Sea. Another arm of the smoke, which is moderately dense, stretched from the western end of the Brooks Range southeastward into the Koyukuk National Wildlife Refuge and near Galena. An area of what is believed to be thin smoke dropping southeast off the Aleutians into the Gulf of Alaska just southwest of Kodiak Island. North Central Canada: Numerous large wildfires were burning this evening over northern Saskatchewan and eastern Northwest Territories. Most of this area was covered in smoke, with large areas of moderately dense and dense smoke near the fires. Most of the smoke was lifting to the north. Nevada: An area of blowing dust was seen over northwest Nevada in Churchill county near Carson Sink and Dixie Valley. The dust was moving south. North Carolina: Numerous fires were observed over northeast North Carolina on both sides of Albemarle Sound with a patch of light smoke drifting to the east out over the Atlantic. Eastern Canada: Several large wildfires over central Quebec east of James Bay were producing moderately dense to dense smoke plumes that were drifting to the east southeast, but not reaching the St Lawrence by sunset. 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