DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1815Z October 6, 2011
North Central US/South Central Canada: A large area of thin smoke covered most of Manitoba, Ontario, southwest Hudson Bay, and the Great Lakes region this morning. Thin remnant smoke was also present stretching southward through the north central US along the Minnesota/Dakota border to northwest Iowa with other small patches over Wisconsin, northwest Illinois, and northern Missouri. This smoke has originated from numerous fires in the north central US and south central Canada and was moving north and northeast across southern Canada. Additional smoke from a large amount of ag fires in the lower Mississippi River Valley has likely also contributed as it has moved northward. British Columbia: Thin remnant smoke could be seen over south and central British Columbia trapped between the Rockies and the Coastal Range. Numerous fires burning in the center of the province are responsible for this remnant smoke and some were producing new smoke this morning. Northeast US: An unknown aerosol could be seen streaming southeastward off the coast the Northeastern US today behind a frontal boundary now out over the Atlantic. The aerosol appeared to be moving southeastward from eastern Canada. 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