DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1430Z August 14, 2013
Labrador Strait/North Atlantic: Thin to moderate smoke on the eastern side of high amplitude ridging across Quebec has pulled smoke from the NW Territory Canadian fires that had moved northward over the Polar Regions/Northern Canadian Islands over the last week. This smoke is now seen over SE Baffin Island and into the Labrador Strait moving SE. Other thin tendrils of smoke were seen off the coast of Labrador and N Newfoundland moving E under strong westerly winds behind prior passing cold front. Northern Canada/Alaska: An abundance of moderately dense smoke with pockets of dense smoke from fires across E Alaska, Yukon Territory and NW NW Territories has been pulled N into a confluence north of Great Bear Lake of N NW Territories and far NW Nunavut eventually turning east or northeast to cover Victoria and Banks Islands. As the smoke reaches the NE tip of continental Nunavut...NW flow around a deep cyclone over Hudson Bay, pulls the smoke southward covering much of the Bay. Only a small strip of clear air is seen around SE Nunavut. Central Canadian Prairies/Northern US: Very dense smoke near the source fires in N Saskatchewan and Manitoba is being pulled SE due to the large cyclone over Hudson Bay, covering much of Saskatchewan, Manitoba and W Ontario before it begins to meld with thin remnant smoke from large fires in Idaho, that covers all of MT, ND, SD, W MN, W IA, NEB, N KS and Lake Superior. Moderately dense smoke from last night's output from the large complexes in ID, covers the southern Sawtooth and Boise Ranges as well as the eastern Snake River Valley before entering Yellowstone NP area where very dense smoke from last evening's large output covers all of N WY and southern line of counties in MT as far east as Gillette, WY before it thins out again (merged with the area described above). Tennessee River Valley/North Carolina/Eastern US Seaboard: A narrow band of thin to moderately dense smoke trails an exiting cold front that pushed through the Ohio Valley and Mid-Atlantic last night. This band connects the smoke from the smoke over the N Atlantic and the smoke across the Central US into Central Canada. The most dense area in this line is around the Bootheel of MO across NW Teneessee. 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