DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1800Z August 13, 2010
Eastern Canada: Similar to yesterday, a large area of light smoke continued to be seen covering much of Quebec and extending to the southeast over Maine, western Island of Newfoundland and Nova Scotia into the open Atlantic. This mass of smoke is likely remnant smoke from the long burning fires in northern Saskatchewan and Manitoba. Colorado: A patch of very thin smoke barely discernible in morning satellite imagery was seen moving east across eastern Colorado and into southwest Nebraska. This smoke had originated from the Twitchell Canyon wildfire burning in southwest Utah. Pacific Northwest and southwest British Columbia: Numerous wildfires burning over west central British Columbia were producing a large area of moderately dense to dense smoke. The smoke has moved to the southwest overnight and was seen extending from the source fires across most of Vancouver Island and into the Pacific Ocean off the Washington coast. It extended about 200 km west of Vancouver Island. Northern British Columbia: Several fires in northwest British Columbia have generated an area of light to moderately dense smoke that covered much of the north central portion of the province. The smoke was generally drifting to the southwest. Southern US into the Southern Plains: A large area of light to moderate aerosol was seen stretching across the southern US from northern Georgia and Alabama into northern Mississippi and Louisiana and into northern Texas and much of Oklahoma and south central Kansas. This is likely mostly haze pollution with little contribution from remnant smoke. 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