DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0230Z July 7, 2013
Alaska: Numerous wildfires in Alaska continue to produce light to thick density smoke that has spread east into the Canadian provinces via central Yukon Territory. Canada: Nearly all of Canada is covered in light density smoke, though much of this may be aloft, due to several extremely large wildfires located in southern Northern Territory, northern Saskatchewan, northern Manitoba, and Quebec. Moderate density smoke is observed over all of central Canada west of James Bay, and very dense smoke is observed in central Canada east of James Bay. US: A large area of light remnant smoke was visible stretching from the southwestern US, northeastward towards the Great Lakes region and into Maine. Moderately dense smoke is embedded stretching from Nevada across Utah and Colorado into Nebraska. Smoke primarily originated from two wildfires in Nevada that have continued to produce large amounts of smoke for days. 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