DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0300Z August 11, 2010
Central/Eastern Canada/Great Lakes Region: Residual smoke continues to extend across a large area of Canada and parts of the northern US. Although the wildfires across Saskatchewan, Manitoba and the Northwest Territories have decreased based on what is seen in GOES 13/11 satellite imagery, the residual smoke can be seen across Nunavut, southward across Manitoba, Ontario, eastern Quebec and north into Minnesota, Michigan and across the northern Great Lakes. A pocket of heavy smoke is seen over Nunavut with moderately dense across a large section of Nunavut and moving south into Ontario. The western edge of light smoke is seen across eastern Northwest Territories and as far east as south central Quebec. British Columbia: Numerous fires are popping up across central and northern sections of the province with some fires producing moderately dense to dense smoke moving east. 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