DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0200Z August 10, 2010

Central/Eastern Canada/Northern Tier US:

Currently:
The wildfires burning in northern Saskatchewan and Manitoba are continuing
to produce moderately dense to dense smoke mostly north NW. The area of
of moderately dense smoke has grown larger across the southeast section
of the Northwest Territories.  Lighter smoke has moved farther east
across the Hudson Bay and into Quebec.

Earlier Today:
Multiple wildfires burning across northern Saskatchewan, southeast
Northwest Territories and northern Manitoba are continuing to produce
large amounts of moderately dense to dense smoke. Heavy residual smoke
can be seen moving north across eastern Northwest Territories and western
Nunavut.  Moderately dense smoke extends farther north into Nunavut and
lingering around southeast Northwest Territories.  Another moderately
dense pocket of smoke extends across central Manitoba and east into
central Ontario.  Light residual smoke spreads across most of Manitoba,
Ontario and across northern North Dakota, Minnesota, Michigan and the
Great Lakes.

Southwest Louisiana:
Multiple fires burning across Beauregard county are producing light to
moderately dense smoke moving NW to W in direction.  A couple fires are
burning in the county of Calcasieu.

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

Unless otherwise indicated:

Areas of smoke are analyzed using GOES-EAST and GOES-WEST Visible satellite imagery.

Only a general description of areas of smoke or significant smoke plumes will be analyzed.

A quantitative assessment of the density/amount of particulate or the vertical distribution is not included.

Widespread cloudiness may prevent the detection of smoke even from significant fires.