DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0230Z July 22, 2010
Currently: Central Canada/Eastern Canada/Hudson Bay/Maine US Smoke continues to move eastward with the moderately dense to dense smoke progressing farther into Ontario/Quebec. The wildfires in Saskatchewan and Manitoba are producing very heavy smoke in numerous directions and combining with the residual smoke spreading across the region. Florida/Georgia: Numerous fires across southern/central Georgia and northern Florida are producing light to moderately dense plumes of smoke moving mostly westward. The smoke plumes across Florida moved quickly into the Gulf of Mexico where before sunset they had not dissipated at that time. Earlier Today: Central Canada/Eastern Canada/Hudson Bay/Maine US: Once again a large area of anything from light to dense smoke is moving east across Central/Eastern Canada and reaching parts of northern Maine. Source of this smoke is from the wildfires burning over northern Saskatchewan and a few in northern Manitoba. There are two main pockets of heavy smoke. One area stretches across parts of southeast Northwest Territory and extending south into north central Saskatchewan. Another area stretches across northern Ontario and into the southern sections of the Hudson Bay. Moderately dense smoke extends from southeastern Northwest Territories into northern Saskatchewan and east into northern/central Manitoba and Ontario. Another strip of moderately dense smoke stretches east across west central Ontario and into southern Quebec, northern Maine and reaching the Atlantic. Light smoke extends north into northern sections of the Hudson Bay, Nunavut and reaching Baffin Island crossing the Foxe Basin and Channel. The wildfires burning across Saskatchewan and Manitoba today, the smoke is moving in a north to northeast direction. Some of the smaller and possibly new fires, the smoke is extending eastward. 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