DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0100Z June 10, 2015
Currently: Central Canada/Central and Eastern US: The moderate to heavy remnant smoke seen earlier today from the Canadian wildfires has spread farther south and east across the Ohio/Tennessee Valley and into the Mid Atlantic/Northeast. Heavy smoke stretches across most of Ohio/West Virginia/Maryland and over central/northern Virginia and into Delaware and southern New Jersey. Moderately dense smoke extends across Kentucky, northern Tennessee/North Carolina. The moderate smoke also spreads across most of Michigan, Pennsylvania, northern/central New Jersey and over southeast New York and into Connecticut. Lighter smoke extends as far south as northern sections of South Carolina, Georgia and Alabama. Another area of lighter smoke has moved into eastern sections of North Dakota and fans across northern South Dakota. British Columbia/Alberta: The wildfires burning in northern British Columbia continue to produce mostly light to moderately dense smoke across northern/central sections of BC/Alberta. A small pocket of heavier smoke divides the line between the two provinces. J Kibler Earlier Today: Central Canada/Central US: A vast area of light/moderate/heavy remnant smoke from Canadian wildfires was observed moving southeast into the Great Lakes and Ohio Valley regions this morning/afternoon. Cloud cover partially obscured the full extent of the smoke but the general outline of smoke spanned from Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and western Ontario the Western Great Lakes states and into the Ohio Valley. The most dense smoke was seen over western Lake Superior, southeast across Wisconsin, southern lake Michigan, northeast Illinois, northern Indiana and western Ohio . This extensive area of smoke primarily originated from wildfires in central Saskatchewan, and northern Alberta. Wildfires in west-central Alberta, and northern British Columbia contributed to two light to moderate with a small patch of dense smoke plumes moving eastward. Eastern Canada: A separate area of light to moderately dense smoke aligned west to east in northern Quebec was moving east. A thin area of light density smoke was seen extending from north to south over north central Hudson Bay. -Kemal 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