DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0400Z June 30, 2010
Alaska: Moderately dense smoke began to be emitted from the Louie Creek fire again today in northwest Alaska along with smoke from other fires. A thin band of smoke was seen this evening drifting westward towards the Bering Land Bridge National Preserve. Northwest Territories/Yukon Territory/Northeast Alaska: Moderate to dense smoke covers a large portion of the coastal continental NW Territories including extreme NW Nunavut and stretches westward to the northern Yukon and northeast Alaska. This smoke is from fires across NW Territories and Saskatchewan over past week or two and continues to move W and NW further into the Beaufort Sea. North Central/Northeast Canada to South Central Canada to Midwest/Great Lakes: A large area of thin to moderately dense smoke from fires in the Saskatchewan and Manitoba over the last week stretched from the Labrador Sea and north of Hudson Bay south into the northern US. Thin smoke continues S to SE under NW flow around the base of the large scale cyclone near James Bay and pours into S Manitoba, SW Ontario, covers all of MN, WI, IA, MI, Lakes Superior, Michigan and Huron along with affecting parts of MO, IL, IN, OH, PA, and NY. An area of very dense smoke was seen over western Ontario and east Manitoba as well. 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 was still 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. Central US Plains: An area of unknown aerosol possibly with some smoke mixed in from ag fires burning in Kansas and Oklahoma the past two days was seen over the Central Plains this evening. California: A large area of aerosol had moved into California this evening. While the origin of the aerosol is unknown, it may be dust transported across the Pacific or it may be from the cool marine air mass moving in from the Pacific. -Sheffler 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