DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1700Z June 19, 2010
Central Canada/North Dakota: A very large area of smoke was seen this morning covering most of Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba as well as southeast Northwest Territories and extending into western and southern Hudson Bay. Light smoke had also dropped into much of North Dakota. Extensive cloud cover over Saskatchewan and Manitoba is making the exact extent and density of the smoke difficult to ascertain in this area. Much of the smoke is of light density but there were patches of moderately dense and dense smoke observed over southwest Alberta, which has gotten wrapped into a cyclonic circulation, southwest Manitoba and extreme southeast Saskatchewan, and along the Saskatchewan/Northwest Territories border. Northeast US/Southeast Canada: Remnant smoke, mainly from a large wildfire in south central Quebec, extended eastward from the fire into the mouth of the St Lawrence and then curved to the south, blanketing New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and clipping the east and south portions of Maine and Cape Cod. Smoke was moderately dense to dense near the fire and in patches downstream - along the coast on the north shore of the Gulf of St Lawrence and also from the eastern tip of Maine extending 800 km to the southeast into the Atlantic. Central Plains: An area of moderately dense remnant smoke was seen over western Kansas along the Colorado border and extending to east-northeast into north central Kansas where it thinned out. This smoke was drifting to the east. A patch of light smoke was aligned from west to east from northeast Wyoming into southern South Dakota. Please see the graphics at the web addresses below for additional smoke still attached to active fires in New Mexico and Arizona. 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