DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1715Z June 24, 2011
North central US/southern Canada: An elongated area of mostly moderately dense to some heavy smoke are visible this morning and early afternoon stretching south from near the southern shore of Hudson Bay southward into extreme eastern Manitoba and western Ontario and then stretching through Minnesota and Iowa. This smoke has likely originated from the large wildfires currently burning through west/central Ontario, Canada. Northwestern Canada/Northern Alaska: Wildfires in northeast Alberta, northern Saskatchewan, and southern Northwest Territories are continuing to produce light to locally dense smoke plume that is stretching from the northern portions of Alberta and Saskatchewan into Yukon and Northwest Territories and finally into northern Alaska. Eastern New Mexico/Western Texas: An area of light to a locally small amount of heavy smoke can be seen moving northwest through eastern/southeastern New Mexico in this morning's satellite imagery. The exact origin of this smoke is unknown since there were no visible fires seen yesterday or today in the immediate area. Belge 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