DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1700Z June 24, 2010
Eastern Canada: Clouds are covering most of eastern Canada not allowing any possible smoke to be observed. Central Canada/N US Great Plains/Upper Great Lakes: The large fires across the northern woods of Saskatchewan (and West Central Manitoba) continue to pour out copious amounts of dense smoke that is moving SE covering nearly all of Saskatchewan and southern half of Manitoba where it continues to stretch through southwestern Ontario and into Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa and the Upper Great Lakes Region. Oklahoma, Missouri, Arkansas: Light remnant smoke is hovering over Oklahoma, Missouri, and Arkansas from the numerous fires across the area yesterday. US East Coast: Across the mid-Atlantic and southeast US a large area of aerosols and haze is slowly moving out over the Atlantic Ocean. It is very unlikely that this area contains any remnant smoke. MS 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