Friday, July 5, 2013

DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1700Z July 5, 2013

Southwest US:
an area of light remnant smoke from the fires in the Southwest over
the past few days was seen covering portions of southern California,
southern Nevada, western Arizona and southern Utah with the smoke rotating
in a clockwise direction. Embedded within this large area was an area
of moderately dense smoke from the Carpenter 1 fire in southern Nevada
west of Las Vegas. This smoke was extending to the east. The smoke may
extend further east across Utah and western Colorado but cloud cover
made detection in this area difficult.

Central US:
An elongated area of very light, elevated remnant smoke from the fires
in Canada was seen stretching from the Minnesota/Canada border southward
into east Texas, with additional patches seen across northern Illinois
and over Lake Superior into western Ontario.

New England:
An area of very light remnant smoke, likely from the Canadian fires,
was seen over the Gulf of Maine and dropping across the Cape Cod area.

Canada:
A very broad area of smoke extended across nearly the entire breadth
of Canada from off the coast of Newfoundland westward across central
Quebec and James Bay into northern Ontario, much of Manitoba, northern
Saskatchewan and Alberta into southwest Northwest Territories. The
heaviest smoke, which was very dense, was seen over east central Quebec
and southern Labrador and off the coast. The area of smoke over Manitoba
and Ontario was also mainly moderately dense.

A separate area of light smoke was detected over northwest Northwest
Territories and lifting north over the Arctic ocean.

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

 


Unless otherwise indicated:
  • Areas of smoke are analyzed using GOES-EAST and GOES-WEST Visible satellite imagery.
  • Only a general description of areas of smoke or significant smoke plumes will be analyzed.
  • A quantitative assessment of the density/amount of particulate or the vertical distribution is not included.
  • Widespread cloudiness may prevent the detection of smoke even from significant fires.