DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0200Z June 20, 2013
Central US: Dense smoke producing wildfires in Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and northern Sonora and Chihuahua are the source of the remnant light density smoke plume that covers the central plains from east of the Rockies as far as the Ohio River Valley. Canada: A broad, detached remnant smoke plume is seen stretching across portions of Central and Northwestern Canada this evening from fires mainly located in Saskatchewan and Manitoba. In eastern Canada, far west central Quebec along James Bay lies one of the largest active wildfires today. It is producing very dense remnant smoke moving off to the east. Remnant smoke reaches over the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Alaska: Large wildfires continue to burn in central Alaska. Moderate to very dense remnant smoke is moving north and then west out over the Bering Sea. Gulf of Mexico: Saharan dust was observed this evening, stretching across the entire central Gulf of Mexico moving west into southern Texas and Nuevo Leon, Mexico. Ramirez 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