DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1855Z June 30, 2010
Alaska/northern Yukon/Northwest Territories/Nunavut/Manitoba/Ontario/Quebec/Great Lakes states/Northeast US: A large an expansive smoke plume was analyzed from northern Alaska, northern Yukon, northern Northwest Territories through Nunavut and covered a large portion of Hudson Bay and Hudson Strait. The plume then extended through much of eastern Manitoba and Ontario and then extended into the Great Lakes/Midwest and Northeast states. The origins of the smoke plume are the large fires over the last week over central Canada and also the current wildfires over portions of central Alaska. The plume contained mostly low to moderate density smoke with a few areas of high density smoke over the northern portions of Hudson Bay and a larger area over the northern portions of the Northwest Territories and the Beaufort Sea. Hanna 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