DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0330Z July 6, 2012
US: Remnant smoke from fires burning mainly in portions of Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, and Utah can be seen in visible imagery covering a large part of the US from the Rockies to the Eastern Great Lakes, the Middle Atlantic, and the Southeast. The smoke is primarily thin density with the exception of a few patches of moderately dense smoke across the Upper Mississippi Valley and Northern Plains. Western US to Southern Canada: A swath of thin to moderately dense smoke is visible stretching from the eastern Pacific across northern California and the Pacific Northwest to the northern Rockies. The smoke extends much farther to the east over much of southern Canada to as far east as central Quebec Province. This smoke is believed to be from fires burning in Siberia. Northwestern Canada: Mainly thin density smoke was observed moving inland from the Pacific across northern British Columbia and the southern portions of the Yukon to the southern portions of the Northwest Territories. This smoke was also believed to be from the fires burning in Siberia. 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