DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0230Z July 15, 2012
US Central Plains: Remnant light density smoke from the wildfires in Canada moved southward last night and this morning and was observed in the Dakotas, Minnesota, Iowa, and Nebraska this evening. California and Oregon: A handful of large wildfires in northern California, including the Mill fire and the Robbers fire, and a few wildfires in Oregon produced an area of light to moderate density smoke over much northern California and much of Oregon this evening. Canada: Very heavy smoke accompanies the numerous large wildfires located on the Alberta-Northwest Territories border. Additional fires continue to burn near Reindeer Lake in Saskatchewan. New fires are active in east central Manitoba today. Light density smoke stretches from Alberta east over the Hudson Bay and out to the Atlantic Ocean. Moderate density smoke is observed over southern and eastern Northwest Territories, northern Alberta, northern Saskatchewan, much of Manitoba, and western Ontario. Dense smoke is locally present near the sources of the fires in Alberta and Saskatchewan. 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