DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0245Z August 07, 2010
Alaska/Yukon/Northwest Territories/British Columbia/Alberta/Saskatchewan/southern Manitoba/southern Ontario/western/Quebec/northern tier of United States from Washington/Oregon to the Mid Atlantic region: An expansive area of smoke from central Canada and northern Alaska extends south/southeast through the Yukon and western Northwest Territories and through all of British Columbia/Alberta/Saskatchewan extended along the northern tier of the United States from North Dakota east through the Great Lakes and Mid-West region through the Mid-Atlantic and off the east coast. The plume is light to moderate with areas of dense mainly over Iowa, Illinois and Indiana as well as central Saskatchewan and Manitoba. The primary source areas for the plume being wildfires over the southern portions of British Columbia, numerous wildfires over northern British Columbia and the southern Yukon, scattered wildfire activity over Alaska and finally wildfire activity over central Saskatchewan and Manitoba last evening and into this morning. Central California and the Northwest Pacific: A moderately dense to heavy area of smoke was seen this evening over portions of central and northern California through the Pacific Northwest and into British Columbia and it is believed the source for this area of smoke is the continued scattered wildfire activity in California as well return flow from fires in western Canada. Liddick 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