DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0325Z August 1, 2011
Canada: Wildfires in western Ontario continue to produce an area of moderate to extremely dense smoke this evening extending into portions of southeastern Ontario. Additional fires burning near Great Slave Lake were also producing an area of what was believed to be mostly thin smoke extending south and east through Saskatchewan, Manitoba and into Ontario. Mid-Atlantic: An area of unknown aerosols (possibly mixed with a little smoke from fires burning across eastern North Carolina) remains off the North Carolina coast this evening. North Central States: An area of thin smoke was evident this evening from the Dakotas extending eastward towards the western Great Lakes. The source for this area of smoke was likely the fire over Fremont County in Wyoming. Northwest Territories: Wildfires over the Northwest Territories were producing a thin to moderately dense smoke plume that was drifting mostly north towards the northern portions of the Northwest Territories. Hanna 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