DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0300Z July 13, 2011
Mid-Atlantic: An area of aerosol believed to be mostly remnant smoke is visible in eastern Georgia, the Carolinas, and the far western Atlantic. This thin density smoke likely originated from wildfires in the central and southwest US and has been wrapped in the large scale eastward trajectory. Additionally contributing to this area of detached smoke could be fires in eastern North and South Carolina and southern Georgia. It is possible that haze from the metropolitan areas in the Mid-Atlantic is also present. Canada: Wildfires in northeastern Alberta/southern Northwest Territories are responsible for a broad area of thin density remnant smoke that is observed moving east along the northern border of Saskatchewan and then southeast into western Ontario. Several wildfires burning in western Ontario are producing locally moderate to dense smoke that is also contributing to the elongated area of thin density remnant smoke. **Blowing Dust** An area of blowing dust was observed in Nye County located in southern Nevada. The dust appears around 1915Z and is visible through 0215Z moving North into southern Lander County, NV Ramirez 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