Monday, June 27, 2011

DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0300Z June 28, 2011

Quebec/New York:
Earlier this morning, remnant thin to moderately dense smoke can be seen
moving due east from fires in western Ontario particularly NW of Lake
Nipigon over the past few days. The visible smoke which was generally
thin to moderately dense could be seen south and east of Hudson Bay
across Quebec Province and extending southward into New York. Cloudiness
moved east across the region during the day which limited additional
information concerning this area of smoke later in the day.

Southeastern US:
Considerable cloudiness was widespread across much of the Southeast
which limited smoke detection in satellite imagery from the fires which
had been occurring especially in southeastern Georgia, northern Florida,
southern Alabama, and eastern North Carolina.

South Central US Plains:
An extensive swath of moderately dense to dense smoke from the Pacheco
fire near Los Alamos New Mexico stretches eastward across the Central
Plains to the Ohio Valley region. Thinner surrounding smoke was visible
even farther to the northeast into Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio, though
cloudiness did interfere with detection in this region.

Alberta/North Central US:
A large area of thin to moderately dense smoke from northern wilderness
fires around Lake Athabasca extended southeastward and covered a good
portion of Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba Provinces in Canada as
well as northeastern Montana, the Dakotas, and Minnesota. Closer to the
fires, dense smoke was present over north central Alberta, north central
Saskatchewan, and northwestern Manitoba provinces.

Northwestern Canada/Alaska:
Several fires and associated smoke plumes were visible over northwestern
Canada including portions of the Yukon and Northwest Territories. The
possible leftover smoke which was visible earlier this morning over the
Arctic was no longer discernible this afternoon.

Southwestern US/Mexico:
Fires over northwestern Mexico continued to produce extensive moderately
dense to locally dense smoke which initially moved to the west. The
smoke then thinned out and turned northward moving across far southern
California and over Arizona and New Mexico.

JS/Gallina


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

 


Unless otherwise indicated:
  • Areas of smoke are analyzed using GOES-EAST and GOES-WEST Visible satellite imagery.
  • Only a general description of areas of smoke or significant smoke plumes will be analyzed.
  • A quantitative assessment of the density/amount of particulate or the vertical distribution is not included.
  • Widespread cloudiness may prevent the detection of smoke even from significant fires.