DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0111Z September 14, 2012
Mid-Atlantic/North Atlantic Ocean/Eastern Canada: Remnant thin smoke from last weekend's fire output across the northern US Rockies continues to hang around the eastern seaboard around and across the Delmarva, VA and NC where flow is pulling it onshore toward the WSW. Then covers the North Atlantic along the NY/CT/RI/MA shoreline (clipping/covering Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard/Nantucket) out to Nova Scotia. The thin smoke then moves E and NE across Newfoundland/Labrador and over the Labrador Sea and Greenland. Four Corners States: Remnant thin smoke from the 3 Wyoming fires (Alpine Lake, Horsethief Canyon and major fire at southern edge of Absaroka Range) from last night has rotated S and SW around ridge axis covering E UT, W CO across S UT into the Grand Canyon Region of N Arizona moving very close to far S NV. Pacific Northwest: A narrow ribbon (25-30km wide) of moderately dense smoke that appears to be high level in altitude defines an amplifying ridge over OR/WA... as it makes and very nice arch from about 50 km west of Coos Bay, OR to the tip of the Olympic Peninsula in WA across Vancouver island and over the city of Vancouver before it arches across the Canadian boarder near the ID/MT line and then across W MT (where it can be difficult to differentiate between the large area of smoke from the numerous fires in ID/MT). This smoke originates from the Pole Creek Fire of central OR. In the low levels...copious amounts of moderate to dense smoke from the WA fire complexes fill the valleys west, northwest and north of the fires due to the southerly flow. This can also make it difficult to differentiate from the ribbon described above. Gallina 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