DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0200Z August 5, 2011
Northern US: An area of remnant smoke from fires in Canada quasi-stationary over most of central Wisconsin. A thin ribbon of this smoke is tracking northeast through central Lake Superior. Canada: Fire within Ontario continue to emit moderately dense to dense smoke which is moving to the east. Light to moderately dense remnant smoke from these fires is over James Bay and moving to the east. Earlier: Great Lakes/Central and Eastern Ontario, Canada: Another large area of smoke can be seen in this morning's satellite imagery stretching from western Ontario into extreme portions of western Quebec into the central Great Lakes and southward through Illinois. This is all remnant smoke mixed in with new smoke from the fires that are continuing to burn through portions of western and central Ontario. Moderate to at times heavy, dense smoke can be seen through the central portion of this plume as well as closest to the location of the fires in western Ontario. Salemi/Belge 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