DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1700Z August 22, 2010
Central/Eastern Canada and Great Lakes: Residual smoke, mainly from the fires in British Columbia the past several days, was seen covering much of central and eastern Canada. However, the actual areal extent is somewhat questionable due to a large area of cloudiness covering much of the Canadian prairie provinces. The smoke appears to cover most of Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and western Ontario, the southern half of Hudson Bay and western Quebec. The smoke dips south over the western Great Lakes and upper Mississippi Valley, from Minnesota into northern Illinois and Indiana. Smoke density is difficult to assess due to the clouds. An elongated area of moderate to dense smoke was seen over southwest Ontario across the Arrowhead of Minnesota and the upper peninsula of Michigan. Other small patches of moderate smoke were over western Quebec. Nunavut: A patch of residual light smoke has become embedded in a cyclonic circulation over Nunavut along the northwest shore of Hudson Bay. Canadian Maritimes: An area of light to moderately dense smoke was over much of mainland Labrador and extending into the Labrador Sea reaching to just off the southwest coast of Greenland. Idaho: A massive fire erupted overnight in southwest Idaho. Clouds were covering the region at daylight, hindering smoke detection but it appears that some smoke is mixed in with the clouds and lifting to the northeast into extreme southwest Montana. Oregon/northern California: A fire over southwest Oregon had a smoke plume drifting to the southwest along and just off the coast of Del Norte and Humboldt counties in California. Ruminski 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