DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1700Z July 28, 2014
SMOKE: Canada/Northern U.S: Wildfires continue to rage over Northwest Territories in Canada, mainly around Great Slave Lake, and produce a large amount of smoke. The smoke is moving to the north and northeast of the fires into the high Canadian Arctic, where it is is beyond the range of GOES satellite detection. The smoke area then curls clockwise around a high pressure system and moves southward into the western Great Lakes. The smoke covers most of eastern Northwest Territories, Nunavut, northern Alberta, northern Saskatchewan, much of Manitoba and Ontario and the western half of Hudson Bay. The smoke also covers northern Minnesota, northern Wisconsin and northern Michigan. Most of this area was moderate to dense, with light smoke mainly confined to the edges. Separate fires burning in central British Columbia were producing light to moderate density smoke that extended to the northeast into west central Alberta. Canadian Maritimes An area of light to moderate density smoke is was detected this morning along the east coast of Newfoundland and southeast Labrador extending into the southern Labrador Sea and the open northern Atlantic. This smoke was from the fires in northern Canada. Central U.S: Small patches of light smoke were seen over the northern Plains from eastern Montana to northeast Kansas. The source of this smoke is uncertain. Washington: Narrow plumes of light smoke were over two of the wildfires burning in central Washington and were extending to the north of the fires into far southern British Columbia. DUST: Gulf of Mexico: Another surge of Saharan dust was seen this morning across much of Cuba and the southeast Gulf of Mexico/northwest Caribbean to the Yucatan. 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