DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0130Z July 2, 2013
North America: A large plume of smoke extends from eastern Alaska, southeastward through the Northwest Territories and Northern Manitoba/Saskatchewan where it spreads north to south. The southern extent reaches to the Gulf of Mexico while to the north it extends north of Hudson Bay. There is a northeastern portion which covers most of Quebec and Newfoundland/Labrador before extending into the Atlantic. This smokes origin is a combination of wild fires in Alaska, Manitoba, Quebec with some of the southern smoke coming from wildfires in the western US. This smoke varies from light to dense with most of the densest areas being near the sources. In the western US there is an area of light smoke that may have become detached from the larger plume but is likely remnant smoke from the sources listed above. -Salemi Earlier Today: Canada/Alaska: A very large portion of Canada is covered by light to moderately dense remnant smoke this morning. The light smoke is visible stretching from central Alaska southeastward across central and northern Canada, Lake Huron, into the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Embedded within the light smoke are multiple areas of moderately dense smoke across portions of Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and Ontario. Multiple wildfires across Canada and Alaska are likely the source of this remnant smoke. The smoke is generally moving in a east-southeast direction while some of it is also wrapping southward into the central US on the eastern side of the ridge of high pressure. US: Light to moderately dense remnant smoke could be seen across a large portion of the US. The moderately dense smoke was located mainly through the central US and Great Lakes region, while light smoke was detected wrapping from the Great Lakes around the surface ridge southward into Texas and then northward from the Four Corners region into the Pacific Northwest. Remnant smoke will likely continue moving in this fashion for at least the short term. The origin of the smoke is likely due to the wildfires in the southwest as well as the smoke from the wildfires in Canada/Alaska. -Vogt 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