DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1715Z June 26, 2010
N Central Canada: An elongated plume of dense smoke, oriented northwest to southeast is still seen over portions of southeastern Northwest Territories, northeastern Alberta, and northern and northeastern Saskatchewan. This smoke plume from numerous fires burning across southeast Northwest Territories, northern Saskatchewan and western Manitoba now extends across the Great Lakes region, northeastern U.S. and Mid-Atlantic States. The most dense smoke is seen wrapping around a low pressure system that is located near the northern Alberta and northern Saskatchewan border and also extends southeast across northern Saskatchewan and into portions of northwestern Manitoba. S Central Canada/Great Lakes/New England and Mid-Atlantic: As mentioned in the above N Central Canada discussion, smoke from fire in N Central Canada stretches across the Great Lakes, over the northeast U.S., across the Ohio River Valley, and into the Mid-Atlantic. An area of dense smoke was seen over southwestern Ontario. An area of moderately dense smoke from the same fires in N Central Canada does extend southeast across western Ontario and over western sections of Lake Superior. A second area of moderately dense smoke was observed in satellite imagery stretched across eastern Ohio, southern Pennsylvania, northern West Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, southern New Jersey and out over the coastal waters of the Mid-Atlantic. AR/TN/SRN KY: Area of unknown aerosols and haze was seen in this morning's satellite imagery over portions of Arkansas, Tennessee, southern Kentucky. Based on yesterday's discussion an area of unknown aerosols was analyzed over northern Texas through Arkansas and eastward off the coast of the Carolinas. It is believed that the area of unknown aerosols mentioned yesterday have shifted to the east over AR/TN/southern KY. Southwest U.S.: A thin, almost ribbon like band of unknown aerosols with unknown point of origin was observed in the morning satellite imagery drifting east and extending from the Gulf of California north-northeast across central Arizona and into south-central Utah. Warren 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