DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1815Z June 10, 2013
SMOKE Canada: Numerous large wildfires continue to burn across northeast Manitoba and into northern Ontario and portions of southern/eastern Quebec. These fires are contributing to a few very large areas of moderately dense smoke, the full extent of which is not readily determined due to cloudy conditions in the region. There are two main areas of smoke. The first extends from extreme northern Quebec southward along the eastern shore of the Hudson Bay and into central Quebec and the second area can be seen along the western shore of the Hudson Bay through northern Manitoba and southern Nunavut. Both of these regions of smoke seem to be rotating around a ridge of High pressure that is centered over the Hudson Bay. There is another small area of smoke which can be seen moving towards the east towards New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. This is likely from the fires burning across central and eastern Quebec. Central Wisconsin/Western Great Lakes: An area of what appears to be light smoke can be seen across portions of central Wisconsin. This is likely remnant smoke from the large wildfires burning to the north across Canada. New Mexico/Arizona: A large area of light to moderately dense smoke from mostly the Silver fire in southwestern New Mexico could be seen moving mostly to the north this morning and early afternoon and also spreading into eastern portions of Arizona. California: The Hathaway fire that continues to burn in southern California is generating mostly light smoke plume that was moving to the north/northeast and reaching all the way into parts of central/southwestern Nevada. DUST Central/Southeastern Gulf of Mexico: An area of Saharan dust can be seen this morning and early after through parts of central and southeastern Gulf of Mexico. UNCERTAIN AEROSOL Central/Southern Plains: A large area of some unknown aerosol was seen moving eastward through Kansas, Oklahoma, northern Texas and into the southern Mississippi Valley today. It is not clear at this time whether this is remnant smoke from the wildfires burning in the southwest or some remnant blowing dust from west Texas or haze pollution as suggested by an aerosol model. Yukon/Northwest Territories: An aerosol can be seen slowly drifting to the southeast across Yukon/Northwest Territories today. This was seen yesterday morning as well and could possibly be high-level dust or smoke being transported from Asia. -Belge THIS TEXT PRODUCT IS PRIMARILY INTENDED TO DESCRIBE SIGNIFICANT AREAS OF 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