DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0230Z July 28, 2010
Currently: Northwest Territories/Nunavut/Saskatchewan/Manitoba region: Smoke continues to generate out of the numerous wildfires burning across Saskatchewan and southeast Northwest Territory. Currently the moderately dense to dense smoke has moved farther south reaching parts of southern Canada and the border to the US (Montana/North Dakota). California/Nevada: A fire in south central Kern county is producing moderately dense to dense smoke moving north into eastern Tulare and western Inyo counties in central California. The smoke is combining with smoke from another wildfire in northern Kern/southern Tulare county. The smoke from this wildfire is very dense and moving across a large section of eastern California/west central Nevada. Lighter smoke is moving farther north into California and Nevada. Another fire burning in Lassen county in northeastern California is emitting light smoke toward the north into Modoc county. Southeast British Columbia: A wildfire (around 50.9N/122.3W) is producing an area of moderately dense to dense smoke moving north across central British Columbia. Lighter smoke has fanned out east of the heavier smoke. Earlier Today: Northwest Territories/Nunavut/Saskatchewan/Manitoba region: The wildfires burning across Saskatchewan and areas of southeast Northwest Territories continues to produce heavy smoke with residual smoke across many different regions in Canada. An area of moderately dense to dense smoke lies WNW to ESE across SW Nunavut north into Victoria Strait, Gulf of Boothia and east into Foxe Basin. Light smoke spreads farther north into southern parts of the Queen Elizabeth Islands and as far east as the Hudson Bay. Another area of moderately dense to dense smoke extends across parts of central Saskatchewan/Alberta and into northern Manitoba. Lighter smoke spreads as far west as northeastern British Columbia and north into sections of southern Northwest Territories and south into southern Alberta and Saskatchewan. Southern Yukon/British Columbia/Northwest Territory: A wildfire burning for days continues to produce moderately dense to dense smoke northwest toward the Yukon. Residual light to moderately dense smoke from yesterday's burning has spread into southeast regions of the Yukon and southwest sections of the Northwest Territories. 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