DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1345Z July 5, 2011
E Canada/New England: Yesterday's early morning and afternoon emissions from the Western Ontario(Manitoba boarder) fire complexes has drifted eastward and can be seen as a moderately dense to dense smoke area currently covering the E portion of Ontario (Toronto to Ottawa), SW Quebec, and North Central NY (Syracuse to Albany). This is connected to a very thin to thin area of smoke and haze that covers New England (SE ME, MA, RI) into the cloud cover regions of SE New Brunswick, PEI and Nova Scotia. W Ontario: The emission from late evening/overnight post windshift/frontal passage is moving south and SSE across Western Ontario into far NE MN and portions of Lake Superior... this smoke is a thinner with some pockets of moderately dense smoke (especially near the source fires). Thin smoke area can be seen connecting the aforementioned smoke area through the cloudy region of NE Ontario. South/Mid-Atlantic US Coast: Moderately dense to dense smoke can be seen hugging the coasts from the multiple large fire complexes across S GA and SE NC. This smoke covers far SE AL, S GA, barely any of N FL, SE half of SC, E one third of NC, then extending out to sea along the frontal zone/boundary. A light haze/smoke can be seen wrapped back over E VA and the Delmarva under influence of a weak shortwave ridge over the area. New Mexico: The large Los Alamos fire continues to pump out copious amounts of moderately dense smoke that cover all of the NW corner of NM, SW corner of CO and NE corner of AZ. The smoke is stuck nearly under the ridge and so it is anticyclonically across the Four-Corners with the bulk movement moving W or WNW across N AZ attm. Central Canadian Wilderness: Though fires across S NW Territories, N Alberta and Saskatchewan have been a bit more controlled over the last week or so... a narrow band of dense smoke can be seen on the southern side of a sheared out deformation zone across the Canadian wilderness. This strip is about 25-50km wide and extends from the western arm Great Slave Lake/MacKenzie River across N Alberta to Lake Athabasca to just north of Reindeer Lake into northcentral Manitoba. A pocket of moderately dense midlevel smoke emitted from the fire SW of Reindeer lake in E Saskatchewan has moved SE and is centered over the northern riverlets of Lake Winnepeg with light smoke connected back to the source. NW Territories/Nunavut: Thin smoke remains trapped in weak flow north of deformation zone described above, but this weak flow covers much of the NW Territories/Nunavut; from Great Bear Lake to Baffin Island and covering nearly all of Hudson Bay. N Alaska/E Russia: Thin smoke from Canadian fires over a week ago continues to drift Westward into Russia across N AK... isolated eddies and convergence zones increase density from thin to moderately dense across the Brook Range and south across the N Yukon River Valley. 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