DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0330Z August 8, 2011
Southeast US: Two areas of light density remnant smoke are visible this evening. One stretches across southern Illinois, northern Kentucky, and over much of West Virginia and the other across southern Mississippi, much of Alabama, and across northern Georgia. Both areas likely have a contribution of smoke from the numerous fires burning in Oklahoma, Arkansas, and northern Texas, but it's possible that some smoke has originated from the larger wildfires in Ontario that have been burning for several days. Ontario/Great Lakes Region: A large wildfire in far west central Ontario and several other wildfires in the vicinity are responsible for a massive area of light smoke that encompasses southwestern and southern Ontario, southeastern Manitoba, the eastern Dakotas, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Ohio, Michigan, and all of the Great Lakes. The detached smoke is guided by a high pressure circulation centered over eastern Minnesota. Areas of moderate to dense smoke are seen over far west central Ontario/southeastern Manitoba and also over Lake Superior. Northwest Territories: Wildfires continue to burn to the east and northeast of Great Slave Lake in south central Northwest Territories, while much larger wildfires continue to burn to the southeast of Great Bear Lake in north central Northwest Territories. Resultant smoke from both areas is visible moving to the northwest this evening as an elongated area of thin density remnant smoke that stretches north into northwest Nunavut Territory and as far west as extreme northwest Northwest Territories. Areas of moderate to very dense smoke are observed to the north and east of Great Bear Lake and are much more localized, extending barely into Nunavut Territory. Ramirez 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