DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1830Z June 12, 2012
Much of the US: Massive amounts of smoke continue to be emitted from the large wildfires burning in the Western states, primarily in Montana, Wyoming and Utah. Moderate to thick smoke was seen during the day in the vicinity of the fires spreading eastward into much of the Central Plains. Lighter density smoke was also observed extending across the northern Plains, the central and lower Great Lakes, New York, New England and into Nova Scotia. The smoke also extended southward along the mid Atlantic and Southeast and offshore over the western Atlantic. Northwestern Canada: A number of fires in far northwestern Canada were responsible for a rather large area of thin density smoke which extended from the northern Yukon and the Northwest Territories over the Arctic Ocean. A few patches of moderately dense to thick smoke were visible closer to the fires. Ruminski/JS 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