DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1630Z August 12, 2013
Eastern Canada/North Atlantic: A narrow 50km wide line of moderately dense smoke from combination from Northern Canadian and Idaho fires from the last week extends from Northern New Brunswick across the Gulf of St. Lawrence to central Newfoundland then out into the North Atlantic where it melds to a broader area of thin smoke that extends from Greenland south to around 45N. Alaska/Canada/Northern US: A vast area of smoke covers nearly the entire northern 1/3 of North America including all of Western and Central Canadian provinces (except BC, E Ontario and Quebec), and the northern tier of US states including: E WA, OR, ID, WY, MT, ND, SD, NEB, NE KS, MN, IA, MO, IL, IN, OH, MI, KY the Great Lakes and portions of W NY, PA and WV (where cloudy conditions obscure detection). Smoke is particularly dense along the southern edge of the area across W NEB, NE KS and around the Canadian fires along the McKenzie River to northern Saskatchewan and Manitoba. 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