DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0330Z July 14, 2014
SMOKE: Canada/Northern U.S: Large areas of light to heavy density smoke remains moving SE through central Canada into the northern US. Areas affected by heavy smoke include the NW Territories, Nunavut, BC, and Alberta. Areas affected by medium density smoke include the NW Territories, Alberta, BC, Saskatchewan, northern Montana, North Dakota, northern South Dakota, southern Minnesota, northwest Iowa the. Areas of light density smoke include Nunavut, southern Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, BC, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, northern Nebraska, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, southern Ontario, and the western Great Lakes. This remnant smoke originates from the wildfires burning in BC, Alberta, and the NW Territories. Central Canada: An area of light to medium smoke is seen between cloud layers over northern and central Manitoba and into east central Saskatchewan. The smoke is believed to be remnant from the fires burning across British Columbia, Alberta, and the Northwest Territories that got caught up in the low pressure system. DUST: Mississippi Valley An of blowing dust remained over the Mississippi Valley and into Tennessee and Kentucky. AEROSOLS: Northeast: An area of unknown aerosols are visible moving offshore the Northeast into the Atlantic Ocean this morning. The plume is first visible at sunset and extends from Virginia to Maine. Liddick 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