DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1432Z July 14, 2013
Eastern Canada: The dense smoke seen over E Canada yesterday (emitted from Quebec and Labrador fires mid-week) continues to slowly move eastward and currently covers the Gulf of St. Lawrence , S Newfoundland, and eastern side of PEI and northern tip of Nova Scotia. Thin smoke drapes back westward across New Brunswick, S Quebec, E Ontario then southward into the US (see below). Cloud cover obscures smoke detection over a large portion of N Quebec but smoke from Manitoba may exist there as some thin smoke can be seen along the edges in places. Hudson Bay: Thin smoke from NW Territory fires and Yukon fires from the last week has drifted west and covers the N Hudson Bay, this is so thin that only GOES-West early morning high sun angles, aid in its detection. Manitoba: A 50 km wide line of dense smoke from yesterday's emissions from fires near Highrock Lake (midpoint between Reindeer Lake and Lake Winnipeg) continues to drift slowly SE and extends from Kiskittogisu, Playgreen and Molson Lakes (lakes just north of NE portion of Lake Winnipeg) to just a few miles S of Hudson Bay and the boundary with Ontario. US Midwest: Thin smoke from the Eastern Canadian fires is wrapped up in a westward moving upper level low across MO and IL this morning. Narrow band extending along the NW periphery of the upper low, extends across NW MO, Central IA, NW WI, and the UP of MI connecting to the thin smoke described in the Eastern Canada section above. Alaska/Yukon Territory: Thin remnant smoke from fires in AK and Yukon territory much earlier in the week continues to drift N across far NW AK under the influence of a tightening low... though cross polar flow has begun to pull this smoke back southward across NE AK and the Yukon Territory... a very narrow (5-10km) wide moderately dense ribbon of smoke can be seen in higher altitudes likely as a boundary delineation of different air masses/flow regimes (please see in GIS page below or KML file). Elsewhere in the region, active fires continue to produce dense to moderately dense plumes of smoke that are generally moving E and SE particularly with fires in the eastern Alaska Range and Southern Yukon Territory... please see links below for further depiction. Gallina 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