DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1715Z June 21, 2014
SMOKE: Canada: Wildfires burning through parts of the Northwest Territories surrounding the Great Slave Lake and northern Alberta during the last few days have created a couple areas of light to moderately dense residual smoke through parts of central and eastern Canada. The first area of smoke stretches across parts of N Hudson Bay, S Nunavut and into SW Northwest Territories. Most of the smoke seen in GOES-15 imagery throughout this area is moderately dense in view with some areas on the edges that are light. The smoke is moving in a w-ly direction. Another area of light to moderately dense smoke extends across W Quebec, N, C and E Ontario, S Hudson Bay and James Bay. The smoke is moving in s-ly direction before moving more w-ly across southern section of the area of smoke. The heavier narrow plume extends south across NW-W Quebec to the James Bay and north across N/C Ontario. J Kibler 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.ospo.noaa.gov/Products/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