DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0300Z June 26, 2011
Ontario/Southern Manitoba/Northern US Plains/Great Lakes: Remnant moderately dense to dense smoke was still visible gradually spreading to the east and southeast across central and southern Ontario, Lake Superior, and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and far northern lower Michigan. This smoke is likely primarily 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 the north central US. 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 moderately dense and dense smoke that covers Northwestern and Central Canada, particularly over northern Alberta, northeast British Columbia, and the southern Northwest Territories.. Earlier this morning, thinner smoke extended as far to the northwest as portions of northern Alaska, and the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas. Much farther to the east, a thin plume of smoke from these fires also stretched eastward across Hudson Bay to northern Quebec. Southwestern Canada/Northwestern 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 extreme northern Idaho, northwest Montana, southeast British Columbia, southern Alberta, and southwest Saskatchewan. North Carolina Coast: Earlier this morning, 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. Abundant cloudiness along the Mid Atlantic coast during the day prevented additional details concerning the smoke. Central and Southwest US/Northern Mexico: Several areas of primarily thin to moderately dense smoke are present across portions of the Central and Southwest US with additional smoke over the Gulf of California and northwestern Mexico. The largest area of remnant smoke stretches from the Central Plains northward to the Northern Plains. This leftover smoke likely came from the Arizona fires as well as a newer large fire over north central New Mexico. Once again, many fires over northwestern Mexico were emitting moderately dense to locally dense smoke which thinned out as it spread mainly to the west. JS 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