DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1730Z July 19, 2010
Central Canada/Eastern Canada/Hudson Bay: A large area of smoke spreads southeast across most of central Canada and parts of eastern Canada from the fires in northern/central Saskatchewan. Dense smoke can be seen moving southeast over parts of eastern Manitoba, most of the the Hudson Bay, central Ontario and into western Quebec. Moderately dense smoke is a little farther south across Ontario and Quebec, but a pocket of residual smoke has spread north into Nunavut and into the Fox Basin and the Gulf of Boothia. Lighter smoke pockets are visible in/between the moderately dense to dense smoke areas. British Columbia: A wildfire in northwest British Columbia (around 58.2N/131.8W) is producing moderately dense smoke moving toward the east. Light to moderate residual smoke is seen moving east NE toward the Yukon Territory border from this fire. Although the residual smoke is getting difficult to seen in GOES-11 imagery due to the sun angle. J Kibler 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