Wednesday, June 10, 2015

DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1700Z June 10, 2015

SMOKE
Great Lakes to mid Atlantic and New England:
An area of light remnant smoke from wildfires in northern Canada covers
southeast Ontario, southwest Quebec, much of the eastern Great Lakes,
upstate New York, the Gulf of Maine, and the mid Atlantic region as
far south as the Virginia/North Carolina border and back into eastern
Kentucky. Embedded within this light smoke is an area of moderately dense
smoke from Lake Ontario across western Pennsylvania, West Virginia and
eastern Kentucky and eastward across Virginia, Maryland and Delaware. An
area of dense to very dense smoke stretched from eastern Kentucky across
most of West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland and Delaware. This whole mass
was moving to the east.

Eastern Canada:
Several patches of high level light remnant smoke from the wildfires
in northern Alberta, Saskatchewan and British Columbia were detected
over Hudson Bay and northern Quebec. One longer ribbon of light smoke
stretched from far northern Labrador and Newfoundland eastward across
the Labrador Sea to the southern tip of Greenland.

Western and Central Canada to the northern Plains and western Great Lakes:
One broad area of mostly light to moderately dense smoke was seen
from northwest and central Alberta east southeastward across central
and southern Saskatchewan and Manitoba into southwest Ontario, eastern
North Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan. Patches of moderately
dense smoke embedded within this larger area were mainly in Manitoba and
Saskatchewan. Another area of smoke was from northern British Columbia
to Great Slave Lake and into northwest Alberta. Areas of moderate to
dense smoke were mainly over northeast British Columbia into northwest
Alberta and adjoining Northwest Territories.

Ruminski


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

 


Unless otherwise indicated:
  • Areas of smoke are analyzed using GOES-EAST and GOES-WEST Visible satellite imagery.
  • Only a general description of areas of smoke or significant smoke plumes will be analyzed.
  • A quantitative assessment of the density/amount of particulate or the vertical distribution is not included.
  • Widespread cloudiness may prevent the detection of smoke even from significant fires.