DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1815Z July 26, 2013
Central Canada/North Central US: An expansive area of smoke covers most of central Canada and the north central US this morning. Moderately dense to dense smoke is being produced by numerous wildfires across the Northwest Territories, northern Alberta, northern Saskatchewan, and northern Manitoba. Thin smoke from these fires extends southward across southern Canada stretching across the northern US states of Montana, North and South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, and Nebraska mixing with other smoke that is coming from the Western US fires. Western to Central US: Fires in the western US states of California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming were producing thin to moderately dense smoke that was extending east and southeast towards the central US. The smoke from these fires mixed with the smoke that was being pulled southward from the Canadian wildfires by an upper level weather system over Minnesota and Wisconsin. Sheffler 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