DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1700Z September 2, 2012
Great Lakes and Mid/Upper Mississippi Valley: An area of light to moderately dense remnant smoke from the western wildfires was detected over the western and northern Great Lakes and then wrapped down through central Iowa and western Missouri around the periphery of the remains of Isaac. Clouds associated with another storm system over the northern Plains and southwest Ontario inhibited possible smoke detection over this area. Northern Rockies to Northern Plains and Manitoba: Smoke from the wildfires in Idaho extends eastward across southern Montana and northern Wyoming into North Dakota. This was mostly light smoke with some patches of moderately dense smoke in Montana and Wyoming. The smoke also extended to the north into much of southern and central Manitoba. There was also moderately dense smoke through the valleys in central Idaho around the fires. Northern California: Smoke from wildfires in northern California was drifting to the west and then southwest extending off the coast and then southward to a position west of the San Francisco area. Northern Canada: A ribbon of remnant light smoke, likely from the western US wildfires, stretched across southern Northwest Territories and Nunavut into west central Hudson Bay. Western Atlantic Ocean: An area of light smoke was pooled along and ahead of a frontal boundary off the mid Atlantic coast east of the Delmarva. A narrow area of smoke was also east of Cape Canaveral Florida and extending further east into the Atlantic. 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