DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0200Z July 20, 2010
Central Canada/Eastern Canada/Hudson Bay: A large mass of dense smoke leftover from the fires burning primarily in northern Saskatchewan Province of west central Canada was visible this afternoon and evening across a good portion of central and southeastern Canada including Hudson Bay, northeastern Manitoba, northern Ontario, and west central Quebec Province. A slightly larger area of thin to moderately dense smoke surrounded the dense smoke. Closer to the fires, dense smoke was still observed moving to the south and southeast from fires. Idaho: A streak of blowing dust or possibly wind blown ash from a recent wildfire was visible moving off to the northeast from a point source near Butte/Jefferson Counties of eastern Idaho. Utah/Wyoming/Colorado: Visible imagery showed what appeared to be some blowing dust of thin density moving to the east across northern Utah, southern Wyoming, and northwestern Colorado. The possible blowing dust may have originated from dry lake beds in northern Utah. JS 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