DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1440Z June 29, 2010
Alaska: Thin smoke from the Louie Creek and SE of the Sotzebue Sound continue to emit and is it movine NW covering a large portion of the Koyukuk River Vallye up to the Waring and Baird Mtns. Smoke from the Pat Creek fire cannot be seen under weather clouds though a small scale anticyclone is parked directly over top, so smoke will move in all directions but not expand to far at this time. Extreme N Northwest Territories: Moderately to dense smoke covers a large portion of the coastal continental NW Territories including extreme NW Nunavut to just E of Kent Peninsula, the SE Beaufort Sea, S Banks and Victoria Islands and the the sounds and straits in between. This smoke is from fires across NW Territories and Saskatchewan over the last portion of last week into the weekend and currently continues to move W and NW further into the Beaufort Sea. Nunavut/Manitoba into Upper Midwest and Great Lakes: A large area of thin smoke with embedded thin lines of moderately dense smoke from fires in the Saskatchewan and Manitoba over the last week continues to demarcate the boundary between different airmasses and flow regimes so the area is remained relatively stationary across continental Nunavut into the Melville Peninsula and over to NW Baffin Island as well as across NE Manitoba. Thin smoke continues S to SE under NW flow around the base of the large scale cyclone over James Bay and pours into S Manitoba, SW Ontario, covers all of MN, WI, MI Lake Superior, Michigan and Huron along with affecting NE IA, N IL and NW IN. US East Coast: A moderate area of thin smoke and moderately dense haze/pollution from early last weeks output of the central Canadian fires and Midwest/East Coast cities can be seen just offshore of the Delmarva into the far NE NC Outer Banks ahead of the frontal boundary. The area then extends well out to sea and is moving rapidly ENE. Gallina 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