DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0130Z June 28, 2010
UPDATED... Northern & 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 observed 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. Also, light to moderately dense smoke can be observed moving to the southeast across Saskatchewan, and central Manitoba. South Central Canada/Great Lakes/New England and Mid-Atlantic: The plume of smoke associated with the fires burning across North Central Canada is thinning out across South 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, however, is now starting to move out to sea. Central Quebec: Numerous fires are producing heavy/dense smoke plumes across central Quebec that extends eastward over extreme western portions of the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Southern Plains/Gulf Coast: Haze and/or suspended aerosols can be observed over Louisiana, Mississippi, western Tennessee, Arkansas, and southern Missouri drifting to the north. Evans/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