DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0330Z June 23, 2010
Canada: Huge fires burning across central Quebec Province experienced a major flare up this afternoon resulting in a large mass of moderately dense to dense smoke which spread generally to the east and northeast. Farther to the west, more large fires concentrated primarily over northern and central Saskatchewan province of western Canada produced another area of moderately dense to dense smoke which moved mainly in a southeasterly direction. Some of the leading edge of the thinner density smoke appeared to enter northern Montana and northwestern North Dakota just prior to sunset. Southwest US into the Northern Plains and Midwest: A moderately dense plume of smoke from the Schultz fire near Flagstaff extended northeastward to the Four Corners. Residual light smoke from fires over Arizona, New Mexico, and Colorado that have been burning for days stretched from Arizona northeastward into the central Rockies, northern Plains and across the Upper Midwest. Louisiana: Thin to moderately dense smoke from a fire burning in southwestern Louisiana moved to the northwest across western Louisiana and portions of eastern Texas during the day. Eastern Half of the US: A very large area of aerosol covered much of the eastern half of the country from the southern and central Plains to the Middle Atlantic region and offshore. It is not known if any of this aerosol may be attributed to leftover smoke from any of the fires burning during the past several days. JS 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