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