DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0300Z June 22, 2010
Canada: A large area of smoke stretches across most of the southern half of Canada due to ongoing fires from British Columbia to Quebec. The smoke is generally moving from west to east from eastern British Columbia across the prairie provinces and southern Hudson Bay into southern Quebec and into the north Atlantic. Much of the smoke is light density but substantial areas of moderately dense to dense smoke were observed in the vicinity of the larger fires. These areas were seen over central Quebec and northern and central Saskatchewan. Southwest US into the Central Plains: Several fires over Arizona, New Mexico and Colorado have been burning for numerous days with the smoke plumes moving to the northeast and then turning more to the east across portions of Colorado, Wyoming, Nebraska, South Dakota and into Iowa and northern Illinois. The massive fire in Arizona near Flagstaff was generating th most smoke which was dense to very dense. Moderately dense to locally dense smoke extended in a narrow ribbon from the Flagstaff fire across Nebraska and into Iowa. Southern California/Southwest Arizona: Numerous agricultural fires are producing small amounts of smoke individually which is merging together in conjunction with a wildfire in northern Baja. This mass of smoke is drifting to the northeast into southwest Arizona. The smoke is mainly light. 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