DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1800Z July 31, 2011
Canada: Wildfires in western Ontario produced moderate to dense smoke this morning. Due to an area of low pressure centered in western Hudson Bay, this smoke moved to the east. Some detached remnant smoke extends from the Keweenaw Peninsula in Michigan's Upper Peninsula northward across Ontario to James Bay. Additional fires burning near Great Slave Lake generated smoke that moved to the south and east through Saskatchewan, Manitoba and into Ontario. The area of low pressure in Hudson Bay is helping to guide this smoke. Mid-Atlantic: An area of unknown aerosols (possibly mixed with a little smoke from fires burning across eastern North Carolina) is present ahead of a frontal boundary in the Mid-Atlantic, mainly off of the North Carolina coast. Myrga 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