DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1615Z June 27, 2010
N Central Canada: A plume of dense smoke that is the result of several fires burning across southeast Northwest Territories, northern Saskatchewan and western Manitoba is seen drifting to the northwest across much of the eastern two-thirds of the Northwest Territories. The smoke begins to thin out the further south and east into Central Canada. S Central Canada/Great Lakes/New England and Mid-Atlantic: The plume of smoke associated with the fires burning across N Central Canada is thinning out across S Central Canada and then cannot be seen due to dense cloud cover north of the Great Lakes. Thin to moderately dense smoke is then observed in satellite imagery further south and east across New York, central and southern New England, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and the northern Mid-Atlantic states. The band of moderately dense smoke is concentrated mostly over southern New York, northern Pennsylvania and across southern New England. Central Quebec: Several fire are producing a moderate to dense smoke plume across central Quebec that extends eastward over extreme western portions of the Gulf of St. Lawrence. 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