DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1715Z June 17, 2011
Arizona/Colorado/West Texas/Kansas/Oklahoma/Northern Mexico: Several large wildfires (e.g. Wallow, Horseshoe 2) continue to emit smoke; however, the amount of smoke and density are much lighter than previously seen. Remnant smoke was visible this morning over western Texas and much of Oklahoma. This rather large area of remnant smoke continues to move to the east. The wildfires in northern Mexico also continue to burn and are spreading smoke over northern Mexico and portions of Texas. Pacific Northwest/British Columbia: Thin areas of light smoke, likely remnant smoke from the Alberta wildfires, were visible this morning on satellite imagery. Smoke appears to be traveling southward through British Columbia and this smoke is entering the United States over Washington. From there, the remnant smoke moves to the southeast and east and approaches the Idaho/Wyoming border. This smoke is circulating around an area of low pressure in Alberta. Ontario/Manitoba: A large fire northwest of Lake Nipigon in western Ontario produced an area of dense smoke that drifted to the west overnight. Satellite imagery this morning shows the smoke, which is still moderate to heavy, near the Manitoba/Ontario border. Southeast US/Florida/Georgia: A broad area of moderately dense smoke continues to be present over extreme northeast Gulf of Mexico, Florida, and the western Atlantic Ocean. An area of very dense smoke continues to originate in southern Georgia from the Honey Prairie fire and others in and around the Okefenokee swamp. Numerous other fires over northeast and southern Florida produced small areas of moderately dense to dense smoke overnight as well. Myrga THIS TEXT PRODUCT IS PRIMARILY INTENDED TO DESCRIBE SIGNIFICANT AREAS SMOKE ASSOCIATED WITH ACTIVE FIRES AND SMOKE WHICH HAS BECOME DETACHED FROM THE FIRES AND DRIFTED SOME DISTANCE AWAY FROM THE SOURCE FIRE..TYPICALLY OVER THE COURSE OF ONE OR MORE DAYS. AREAS OF BLOWING DUST ARE ALSO DESCRIBED. USERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO VIEW A GRAPHIC DEPICTION OF THESE AND OTHER PLUMES WHICH ARE LESS EXTENSIVE AND STILL ATTACHED TO THE SOURCE FIRE 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 ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS REGARDING THIS PRODUCT SHOULD BE SENT TO SSDFireTeam@noaa.gov