DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0400Z September 12, 2012
Northwestern US/Northern Plains and Great Lakes/Southern and Eastern Canada: This morning, a very large and expansive area of mostly light, remnant smoke was visible stretching from Washington/Oregon eastward into the northern Plains and Great Lakes region and then into portions of Manitoba through Ontario and Quebec. More moderate areas of smoke were embedded in through Montana and into southern Manitoba, central Wisconsin, and then through central/eastern Ontario and central/southern Quebec. Remnant smoke originated from numerous wildfires in the western US. As the day progressed, remnant smoke moved east reaching western Maine and New York, and continued burning in the West resulted in areas of moderate to thick density smoke over Idaho and Washington. LP/Belge 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