DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1900Z June 23, 2011
Eastern US: Much of the western eastern U.S. coast from northern Florida to southern Virginia is covered with moderately dense to dense smoke that is originating predominantly from the Honey Prairie wildfire in the Okefenokee Swamp, GA and the Duckett fire in North Carolina. North central US/southern Canada: A low pressure center of circulation is present over Minnesota and is wrapping in smoke from the wildfires throughout Canada. This remnant smoke is thin to moderately dense and is being forced south into eastern Montana and the Dakotas. Northern Canada: Wildfires in northeast Alberta, northern Saskatchewan, and southern Northwest Territories are collectively responsible for a light to locally dense smoke plume that is moving northwest across Northwest Territories and Yukon Territory as far west as northeast Alaska. Salemi/Ramirez 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