DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0300Z July 14, 2012
United States: Much of the northwestern US, Rocky Mountain Range, and western central plains are covered by thin density remnant smoke. This smoke likely originated from the recent large wildfires in Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, Idaho, and Montana, and the current large wildfires burning in northern California and Oregon. Areas of moderate density smoke include northern California and Oregon, as well as patches in southern Canada, the Dakotas, and a ribbon of smoke over the Great Lakes stretching east over New England and out to the Atlantic. Canada: Several large wildfires located on the Alberta-Northwest Territories border continue to produce heavy smoke. Other significant smoke producing fires are burning near Great Slave Lake in central Northwest Territories, in north-central Saskatchewan, in eastern Saskatchewan to the south of Reindeer Lake, and in central Manitoba. Collectively these fires are responsible for a broad area of remnant light density smoke that covers most of Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, western Ontario, the Hudson Bay, and northern Quebec out to the Atlantic Ocean. Moderate to dense smoke is present mainly near the sources of the fires out to 200-300km. Ramirez 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