DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0215Z June 22, 2012
Four Corners: New smoke from several wildfires burning in Arizona/New Mexico/Colorado and northern Mexico is mixing with remnant smoke from the past several days to cover much of eastern Arizona, Utah, western Colorado and most of New Mexico. Some smoke is also moving into southwest Wyoming. The eastern edge of this smoke is difficult to locate as it becomes more diffuse over West Texas and western Oklahoma. Mid Atlantic into New England: Remnant smoke from the large wildfire in the West has moved to the East Coast in the mid Atlantic, New York and western New England and mixed with a large area of haze in the region, making the distinction between the haze area and smoke difficult to define. There is likely additional smoke caught up in a frontal boundary from the mid Mississippi river valley and the Ohio river valley and into the southern Great Lakes. Eastern Canada: Numerous fires burning over far eastern Labrador for the past several days has produced an area of smoke swirling over the region and just reaching the St Lawrence river valley. South Central Canada: An area of light remnant smoke from fires burning in northwest Canada has settled south and lies along a path from central Alberta to southern Saskatchewan. Alaska and Northwest Territories: Several wildfires burning over the northern Alaska, the Yukon and western Northwest Territories have produced an area of smoke that covers much of northern Alaska, northern Yukon and northwest Northwest Territories. Blowing Dust: California/Nevada/Arizona: Several sources of blowing dust were noted. The most prominent was in northeast California north of Lake Tahoe with a moderate to dense dust plume moving east into northwest Nevada. Other areas of lighter dust were seen over the deserts of southern California and around the Salton Sea. Southwest New Mexico/northern Chihuahua: An north/south arc of blowing dust was straddling the New Mexico/Chihuahua border and moving to the west, nearly reaching the Arizona border by sunset. Ruminski 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