Tuesday, July 26, 2011

DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1800Z July 26, 2011

Canada:
An expansive area of smoke covers much of Canada and stretches
southeastward to Ontario and the northern extent of the Great Lakes
region. Much of this smoke has originated from several large wildfires
in the Northwest Territories, although remnant thin smoke seen across
northeast British Columbia, northern Alberta, and north Saskatchewan
could be smoke from Asian wildfires that had traveled across the
Pacific. Moderately dense to very dense smoke was seen over the southeast
Northwest Territories, southern mainland Nunavut, and across Hudson
Bay. The smoke stretched as far east as northern Quebec and Labrador.

North Central US:
The Norton Point wildfire in the Shoshone National Forest of Wyoming, was
still producing smoke this morning. Remnant smoke from this fire stretched
across the north central US this morning reaching as far east as Michigan,
Ohio, and Indiana. There was also a small patch of smoke over western
Kansas that could be from the wildfires in south and central California.

South California:
A small patch of smoke was present over Inyo county California that had
come from the Lion fire in Tulare county, California.

Mid-Atlantic Coast:
An unknown aerosol seen off and along the Mid-Atlantic coast stretching
southwest across southern Virginia/northern North Carolina was drifting
further south as the frontal boundary slowly progressed southeastward.

Sheffler

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.