DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0130Z July 2, 2012
Currently: Rockies to the East Coast: The large wildfires burning across Utah, Wyoming, Montana and Colorado continue to produce large areas of dense to very dense smoke moving mostly east to northeast in direction. The large area of moderately dense residual smoke continues to push eastward and is currently moving into the Central Plains and nearing the Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, and Arkansas borders. Lighter residual smoke has pushed into the northeast and along the Canadian/Atlantic coast and as yesterday along the US east coast spreading as far south as Florida. Earlier Today: Much of the US: Copious amounts of remnant smoke could be seen across Wyoming, northern Colorado, and Montana extending eastward across the remainder of the US this morning. Within the expansive coverage of smoke was a fairly large area of moderate-to-dense smoke that can be tied back to the many wildfires burning in Colorado/Wyoming/Montana. This thicker-type smoke was very apparent over the northern Rockies into Montana moving mainly eastward into the northern and central plains. Further east, thin-density smoke could be seen stretching over the remainder of the eastern US seaboard into the Atlantic Ocean and then lifting northeast across Nova Scotia. Nunavut: An area of thin-density smoke could be seen across Nunavut. This smoke is likely remnant smoke from wildfires that have been burning in far Northwestern Canada and got embedded in the upper level flow. J Kibler/L Paulik 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