DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1700Z September 1, 2012
Pacific Northwest to western Great Lakes: A broad area of mostly light density smoke from the numerous wildfires burning in California and Idaho was seen stretching from northern California and southeast Oregon across Idaho and Montana then arcing northward into eastern Alberta, and Saskatchewan and then curling back to the southeast over Manitoba and southwest Ontario into Minnesota, Wisconsin and Lake Superior and Iowa. Patchy small areas of moderately dense smoke were seen in the immediate vicinity of the fires in Idaho and northern California. A larger area of moderately dense smoke was seen around Lake Winnipeg. Northern Canada: A narrow area of light smoke was seen extending from northeast British Columbia east-northeastward across southern Northwest Territories and Nunavut. Mid Atlantic and Southeast Coast eastward: An area of mostly light density smoke was pooled along a weak frontal boundary and extended from New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania eastward into the Atlantic to at least an area south of Newfoundland. The smoke also extended southward off the US coast to an area east of the Carolinas. Ruminski 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