DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0200Z July 10, 2013
Alaska: An area of light density smoke persists over southern Alaska and is moving SSE over the North Pacific where it becomes obscured by clouds. This is likely remnant smoke from the numerous wildfires throughout Canada. Canada: Smoke from the numerous wildfires throughout the Provinces continues to cover most of the country. The smoke varies in density from light to heavy with the heaviest areas located near the sources. Central US: An area of light to moderately dense smoke is dipping down from Canada into the Dakotas. A stream of light smoke, likely from the wildfires in the western US stretches from Nebraska east through Iowa, Illinois and Wisconsin before becoming obscured by clouds. Western US: A large area of light smoke is located from California/Oregon, east through Idaho, Nevada, Utah and Wyoming. This smoke is associated with the wildfires in the western US. -Salemi Earlier: Lower Mississippi River Valley: An area of light remnant smoke is seen tracking eastward across portions of Missouri, Arkansas, western Tennessee, and southern Illinois. Smoke is believed to have originated from several wildfires burning across the southwestern US. Central Plains/Western US: An elongated area of thin dense remnant smoke can be seen from southern Minnesota/northwestern Iowa back westward over southern Wyoming. Then the area of smoke becomes more spread out covering most of Utah, southern Idaho, portions of Nevada, southern Oregon and northeastern California. Smoke is from several wildfires burning across Nevada. Southern California/Southwest Arizona/Northwest Mexico: Thin dense smoke is tracking northward out of northwestern Mexico across southern California and southwestern Arizona. Smoke likely originated from fires burning across portions of northern/central Mexico. Canada: The coverage of smoke across Canada remains impressive this morning. Thin smoke can be seen extending across much of the county with breaks due in large part to dense cloud cover obscuring further smoke detection. Rather large areas of moderately dense smoke is seen embedded within portions of the thin density smoke. Moderately dense smoke can be seen across central and eastern Quebec, northern Saskatchewan, and central and eastern Northwest Territories. The majority of the heavy dense smoke is observed primarily confined to northern Saskatchewan and central Northwest Territories. Numerous large wildfires continue to burn across central and eastern Canada and continue to produce large amounts of smoke. Smoke is also making its way southeastward from Alaska into central Canada from wildfires burning there. Alaska: Western portions of the state is seen to have a thin to moderately dense smoke plume drifting south and east this morning. Extensive cloud cover across much of the state is preventing detection of any additional smoke that may exist. Warren 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