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