DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1630Z August 10, 2014
SMOKE: Eastern US and eastern Canada: An area of smoke that originated from the large fire complexes in Northwest Territories around Great Slave Lake was seen over the Great Lakes region and extending to New England and the Mid Atlantic. The smoke also covered much of Ontario, southern Quebec and mainland Newfoundland and Labrador. The smoke was mostly light with some patches of moderate density over the western Great Lakes and from northern Virginia off into the Atlantic. Another narrow streak of moderate density was seen from southern Quebec near northern Maine extending to the northeast across Newfoundland and Labrador. Northern and Central Canada: Clouds cover much of the area around the fire region of Great Slave Lake, precluding smoke detection in this area. However, light smoke was seen extending southeast of the fires across northwest Alberta into northern and central Saskatchewan and southwest Manitoba. Smoke was also seen over portions of central Northwest Territories extending into northwest Nunavut. Northwestern U.S/southern British Columbia : The numerous wildfires burning over Washington, Oregon, Idaho, northwest Montana, southern British Columbia and northern California have generated a broad area of smoke swirling around much of this region. Fingers of smoke reached into western Montana and covered much of northern Idaho, the eastern two-thirds of Washington, northern and western Oregon, far northwest California and extended into the Pacific off the Oregon and northern California coasts. The smoke was mostly light but with patches of moderate from central Oregon west to the Pacific and then curling to the south off the coast and also over much of north central and northwest Washington into northern Idaho and southern British Columbia. Small areas of dense smoke were seen in the immediate vicinity of some of the fires. New Mexico/Colorado/Kansas: A narrow area of light remnant smoke from a fire in Arizona was detected from north central New Mexico into southeast Colorado and western Kansas. 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