DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1845Z July 02, 2010
Alaska/Northwestern and Central Canada: A large area of moderately dense smoke continues to be visible this morning spreading to the west across northern portions of the Yukon and Northwest Territories of northwestern Canada, northern Alaska, and the Arctic Ocean. This smoke was primarily believed to be leftover from large fires scattered over northern Saskatchewan Province of central Canada. It is likely that even more smoke was present across northwestern and north central Canada, but cloudiness prevented detection in satellite imagery. Central to Eastern Canada: Widespread wild fires over northern Saskatchewan and northern Manitoba were combining to produce a large moderately to locally dense smoke plume from northern Saskatchewan and extending into northern Manitoba, southeastern Northwest Territories, southern Nunavut and over central portions of Hudson Bay. A thin area of smoke that is believed to have originated from the fires over northern Saskatchewan was also analyzed over a large area consisting of western Quebec, Ontario, most of Manitoba, southwestern Nunavut, southeastern Northwest Territories and the northern Plains and Great Lakes States. Northern and Central Plains: A very thin area of smoke that is believed to be remnant smoke from agricultural fires over Kansas and Oklahoma was analyzed from northeast Kansas extending northeast into central Minnesota. 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