DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1530Z June 29, 2014
SMOKE Eastern Canada: A large area of thin to moderately dense smoke from the Boreal Quebec fire complex continues to drift eastward across the southern Labrador Stait and northern Newfoundland. A pocket of particularly dense smoke can be seen from the northern peninsula of Newfoundland, east across the Atlantic then turning north towar the southern tip of Greenland but still south of 55N. Due to the development of a sfc cyclone near 42N 55W... the eastward progression of the smoke was halted even stagnant across the Gulf of St. Lawrence, allowing areas of increase density smoke such as over coastal SE Quebec , SW Newfoundland toward NE Nova Scotia moving south offshore along the western side of the cyclone. Thinner smoke can be seen further west covering New Brunswick, and Downeast Maine into the Gulf of Maine. Western Canada: Due to complex flow pattern with the large polar vortex over southern Manitoba, but a weaker/smaller cyclone NE of Great Slave Lake... very dense smoke continues to build up across much of the source regions in NW Territories as well as N Alberta and far NW Saskatchewan. A pocket of very dense smoke is also being ingested by the smaller cyclone and being rotated back NW toward Big Bear Lake. It is possible but difficult to determine due to weather cloud cover, that thin to moderately dense smoke may be moving due west along the Territory/Province boundary (60N) nearing the AK boarder. DUST: Gulf of Mexico/Central US Gulf Coast: Well defined moderately to dense Saharan Air Layer can be seen across the entire Western Gulf of Mexico but also being pulled north covering much of SE TX, all of LA and portions of SW MS and S AR. Highest density can be seen over the Southern Gulf and Yucatan Peninsula. A 2-3 degree wide west to east band extends back from the NE tip of Yucatan to central Cuba and just south of Andros into Long Island in the South Central Bahamas. (Southern Cuba and Turks/Caicos are clear). AEROSOLS: Central North American Continent: Very hazy conditions exist with mixed pollutants cover much of the central portion of the United States into Canada; embedded smoke from the San Juan fire may exist within this area that covers OK and the eastern 2/3rds of TX. Hazy conditions can be seen through breaks in the clouds covering MO, IL, IN, W OH, LP of MI, Eastern WI and becoming particularly dense again across E Ontario, James Bay, and far W Quebec. 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.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