DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0245Z August 10, 2013
Western US to the Great Lakes/Southeastern Canada: A large mass of thin to moderately dense smoke from fires burning in the Western US spread eastward across portions of Montana and Wyoming to the Northern and Central Plains, the Great Lakes region, and across southeastern Canada. Closer to the fires, very dense smoke from huge fires burning in south central Idaho moved to the north during the afternoon and evening. The smoke then thinned out to moderately dense as it spread more to the northwest over northwestern Oregon and much of Washington. More moderately dense smoke from fires in northern California and southwestern Oregon moved to the west and southwest off the coast. The smoke then paralleled the coast and moved back inland over central California. Cloudiness over the Western US did interfere some with additional information concerning smoke density and extent. Canada: Numerous wildfires which stretched from northwestern Manitoba to the Northwest Territories and the Yukon were resonsible for a very large mass of thin to moderately dense smoke which covered a good portion of Canada. The moderately dense to thick smoke generally extended from northern Hudson Bay westward to the Northwest Territories. Alaska: Wildfires were analyzed mainly across south central to eastern Alaska. Cloudiness interfered with smoke detection over Alaska, though some thin to locally moderately dense smoke was visible between breaks in the clouds stretching from east central Alaska to the Arctic Ocean. JS Earlier this Morning... Dust: Gulf of Mexico/Texas/Oklahoma/Arkansas: A large area of elevated Saharan dust remains across the western Gulf coast and could also be seen over central and eastern Texas, southeast Oklahoma, Arkansas, and western Louisiana. Liddick 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