DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0215Z June 11, 2013
SMOKE Canada: Numerous large wildfires continue to burn across northeast Manitoba and into northern Ontario and across central Quebec from James Bay to the border with Labrador. These fires have produced large areas of remnant light to moderately dense smoke, the full extent of which is not readily determined due to cloudy conditions in the region and the far northern extent into northern Hudson Bay. There are two main areas of smoke. The first covers much of northern and central Quebec and the immediate adjoining region of eastern Hudson Bay. The second area can be seen along the western shore of the Hudson Bay through northern Manitoba and southeast Nunavut. Both of these regions of smoke seem to be rotating around a ridge of High pressure that is centered over the Hudson Bay. Smoke from the active fires in Quebec is moving to the southeast, with patches of moderately dense to dense smoke. New Mexico/Arizona: Wildfires burning in northern and southwest New Mexico and southeast Arizona were generating smoke which covered most of central and western New Mexico and eastern Arizona. There were areas of moderately dense to dense smoke and it was mainly moving to the northeast. California: The Hathaway fire continues to burn in southern California is generating mostly light smoke plume that was moving to the northeast and reaching into extreme southern Nevada. Nevada/Idaho; A fire in central Nevada along the Lander/Eureka county border was producign a plume of mainly light smoke that was lifting to the north and into southwest Idaho. DUST Gulf of Mexico: An area of Saharan dust continues to be seen over the northern Gulf of Mexico from the Florida Panhandle and stretching back to the southwest into the Bay of Campeche. Some of the dust has also drifted inland over eastern Texas. Kansas/Colorado: An area of light blowing dust appears to have been generated from gusty thunderstorm outflow winds and was moving to the north over western Kansas and southeast Colorado this evening. Southwest: Gusty winds associated with a storm system in California is generating a few areas of blowing dust. There were several source areas in Nevada – one in northeast Nye county and others in Churchill and Mineral counties. The dust was mixing with smoke and clouds to make determination of the extent of the dust uncertain. Another area of light blowing dust was observed over southern California, near and east of the Salton Sea, and extending into western Arizona. Ruminski 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