Thursday, August 12, 2010

DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0102Z August 13, 2010

South Dakota:
The smoke originating from the fire in southwest Utah last
evening/overnight can be seen as an area of thin smoke about 75km
wide (E-W) extending from Central ND to the central SD/NE state line.
This smoke continues to drift slowly NE.

Michigan/Lake Huron:
An area of remnant smoke was seen over eastern lower Michigan and
adjoining Lake Huron, Lake Erie and western Ontario peninsula. The source
of the smoke is uncertain but possibly from recent agricultural burns
over southern Manitoba, eastern North Dakota and northwest Minnesota
two nights ago.

Eastern Canada:
Not much has changed since this morning, the large area of light smoke
continued to be seen covering much of Quebec, eastern Hudson Bay and
extending past to Nova Scotia though there is a bit of a break across
W PEI, N Nova Scotia and SE Newfoundland before it becomes thin to
moderate again over the NW Gulf of St. Lawrence. This mass of smoke is
likely remnant smoke from the long burning fires in northern Saskatchewan
and Manitoba.

Gallina/Ruminski/Earle

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.