DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1700Z June 25, 2011
Ontario/Southern Manitoba/Northern US Plains/Great Lakes: Remnant smoke of moderately dense to dense thickness could be seen this morning drifting east across central Ontario and southeast over Lake Superior/U.P. of Michigan. This smoke is from a large wildfire that is burning in west central Ontario. Thinner smoke from this fire covered much of Ontario, southern Manitoba, and parts of North Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Indiana, and Ohio. Northwestern and Central Canada/Northern Alaska: The wildfires in northeast Alberta, northern Saskatchewan, and southern Northwest Territories are continuing to produce a large amount of smoke that has expanded to cover Northwest and Central Canada and portions of northern Alaska extending over the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas. A thin plume of smoke from these fires stretched eastward across Hudson Bay to northern Quebec. In the general vicinity of the fires, the smoke plume is moderately dense to dense over northern Alberta, northeast British Columbia, and the southern Northwest Territories. Southwest Canada/Northwest US: A thin plume of remnant smoke believed to be from the wildfires in Alberta had been wrapped southward around an upper low over the Alberta/Saskatchewan border and was now being pulled northeast across northern Idaho, northwest Montana, southeast British Columbia, southern Alberta, and southwest Saskatchewan. North Carolina Coast: A small amount of aerosol believed to be remnant smoke from the fires in the Carolinas and Georgia was seen beneath clouds along a frontal boundary off the East Coast. Central and Southwest US/Northern Mexico: Several areas of thin smoke are present across portions of the Central and Southwest US with additional smoke over the Gulf of California/Northwest Mexico. The largest area of this smoke stretches from Colorado/Wyoming/Nebraska southeast across Kansas/Oklahoma/north Texas to Arkansas/southern Missouri and probably mostly came from the wildfires in Arizona and a newer fire in northern New Mexico. Another small patch of smoke was drifting east over western New Mexico this morning that likely came from the Arizona fires. The smoke seen over the Gulf of California is from the fires in northern Mexico. Sheffler 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