DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1530Z July 7, 2014
SMOKE: North Alaska/Northwestern to Central Canada/North Central US(Upper Mississippi Valley/Great Lakes region): Numerous wildfires in northwest Canada have caused a large area of moderately dense to dense smoke across a large section of western into central Canada moving southeastward. Heavy smoke is seen in southwest Northwest Territories stretching southward into a large area of northern/central Alberta. Moderately dense smoke extends over parts of southeast Yukon, southern Northwest Territories and across western Alberta and eastern Saskatchewan. Light smoke extends over parts of north Alaska eastward into north Yukon and most of the Northwest Territories. It also stretches over western/central Saskatchewan, southern Alberta and into the Dakotas, Nebraska eastward into Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, Michigan and northern Missouri and Illinois. An area of moderately dense smoke can be seen moving southeast across northern Minnesota and extreme southwest 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