DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1500Z July 24, 2014
SMOKE: Canada/Northern US: The wildfires burning in the Northwest Territories around Great Slave and Great Bear Lakes are continuing to produce a large area of residual smoke across central and eastern Canada. Very dense residual smoke is moving south across parts of the eastern Northwest Territories, western and southern Nunavut and south across northeast Manitoba through central and southern Ontario into the northern Great Lakes region and southwest Quebec. Light to moderately dense smoke extends as far east as the Hudson Bay, as far west as northern Saskatchewan, northern Alberta, southern Northwest Territories and northern/central British Columbia. US Wildfires burning in eastern Nevada and on the border of Utah are currently producing light to moderately dense smoke northeast across northern Utah, southeast Idaho and southwest Wyoming. Residual smoke from these wildfires and the Northwest Territories can be seen across a large section of Wyoming, southern Montana, southern/central Plains and east into the Upper and Middle Mississippi Valley. 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