DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0215Z July 25, 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. Moderate to dense residual smoke is moving north from the fires and then curves clockwise to the east and then southeast across much of central/eastern Northwest Territories, central/southern Nunavut, across northeast Manitoba most of Ontario into the northern Great Lakes region and southern Quebec, just reaching into northern New England. The full northern extent of the smoke into the Canadian Arctic is uncertain due to its far northern latitude. Separate wildfires burning in central British Columbia were producing a plume of moderately dense to dense smoke that was moving to the east into east central BC. US Wildfires burning in central/eastern Nevada and in Utah were producing moderate to dense smoke this evening. The smoke was moving quickly to the northeast and extended into central Wyoming. Light residual smoke from these fires from overnight and yesterday was also seen over much of the central and southern Plains states where it then curled counter clockwise over south Texas and spread into the northern Gulf of Mexico and then turned to the northeast across the Southeast US. The smoke over the southern Plains, the Gulf and the Southeast US was also likely mixing with remnant smoke from the Canadian fires, Saharan dust and locally generated sulfates. Numerous fires over eastern Oregon and southwest Idaho were producing mainly light smoke that remained relatively close to the source fires. A ribbon of thin smoke was detected from the San Francisco Bay area across northeast California, northwest Nevada, southern Idaho and into eastern Montana. This is high level smoke from wildfires in Siberia. DUST: There was a small area of blowing dust seen over far southwest Kansas and extreme southeast Colorado. This light dust was moving to the north. Ruminski 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