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