DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1645Z August 11, 2010
Quebec/Maine/New Brunswick: Remnant thin to moderately dense smoke from the Saskatchewan fires earlier this week can still be seen across far NW and E Hudson Bay, the Foxe Channel, Hudson Strait, S half of Baffin Island and northern Quebec. This smoke is drifting S to SSW on the west and northwest side of the large polar vortex over the Labrador Sea. A narrow ribbon of thin to moderate smoke extends from this area on the SW side of the vortex and is draped across central Quebec from Lac Mistassini to lac St.Jean to Quebec City into far N Maine and NE New Brunswick. US South: Moderately dense haze and pollution in a very warm moist airmass can be seen extending from near Vicksburg MS across N MS, N AL, SE TN, N GA, N SC and all of NC, S VA and out to sea. Gallina 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