DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1500Z June 22, 2014
BLOWING DUST: Florida/Gulf of Mexico/East Texas: Saharan dust covers a large area of the central/southern and western Gulf of Mexico. The dust can first been across SW Florida extending WSW across the Gulf of Mexico and then NW into western Gulf of Mexico and eastern Texas. The dust likely extends farther in to Texas, however the extent of the dust is hard to determine due to heavy cloud cover across the state and Mexico. SMOKE: Eastern Canada/Great Lakes Region US: Residual smoke extends and moves SSE across portions of S Hudson Bay, James Bay, C/W Ontario and W Quebec. The smoke is beginning to stretch in to northern portions of Lake Superior, Lake Huron, Michigan and across all of Georgian Bay. Most likely, the smoke is from wildfires burning across Northwest Territories/Northern Alberta this week. Northwest Territories: A narrow area of residual smoke can be seen across W Northwest Territories and stretching between western sections of Great Bear and Great Slave Lake. Additional smoke is most likely to the east, but cannot be seen as a boundary/cloud cover extends from Northwest Territories SSE through Alberta/Saskatchewan. 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