DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1745Z June 13, 2013
Central/Southern Plains and Lower Mississippi Valley/Southeastern US: An extremely large area of remnant smoke is stretching from the western Great Lakes through the central and southern Plains state, back into Colorado and New Mexico and then stretches eastward through the lower Mississippi Valley and off the southeast coast. This remnant smoke has many sources. First, the large wildfires in southern and northern New Mexico continue to burn and produce a lot of smoke. These fires in particular have likely led to the area of medium density smoke that can be seen stretching from northern New Mexico into the Texas/Oklahoma Panhandles and then eastward along the Texas/Oklahoma border. The second source are the fires that are burning through central/southern Colorado that are also putting off a lot of smoke and leading to the majority of the remnant area over the center of the country. Additionally, wildfires burning through Canada are leading to smoke moving southward from the Great Lakes region. Lastly, numerous agricultural burns throughout the lower Mississippi Valley and southeastern US have likely led to the area of remnant smoke which is moving off the coast in that region. Central/Eastern Canada: Numerous wildfires continue to burn through northern Manitoba and central/eastern Quebec and have led to a very large area of remnant smoke that spans from the eastern portions of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut southeastward into Manitoba, Ontario and into central Quebec. There is another area of analyzed smoke moving eastward toward Labrador. Most of this smoke is light in density but there are a few moderately dense patches across northern Manitoba/southern Nunavut and through south/central Ontario moving towards the western Great Lakes. Yukon: An area of mostly light, remnant smoke can be seen moving westward across Yukon and extreme northern British Columbia. This is from a few wildfires that were burning last night and into this morning across portions of southwestern Yukon. -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