DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0245Z June 28, 2015
SMOKE: Western US: An area of light density smoke that encompassed southern British Columbia, Washington, Idaho, Nevada and western Utah continues to drift to the north-northeast. This area of diffuse smoke originated from wildfires in the southwest. Alaska/Canada/Midwest: An immense area of light to heavy density remnant smoke was seen spanning from the Bering Sea off the western-central coast of Alaska, northeast into Yukon, then southeastward/eastward into most of central/eastern Canada and finally into the US Midwest. The majority of this smoke originated from numerous wildfires in southwestern/central Alaska as well as the southern portions of the Northwest Territories, northern Alberta, northern Saskatchewan. Remnant smoke over Alaska has become more diffuse today although cloud cover has partially obscured the full extent and intensity of this remnant smoke. Medium density remnant smoke was seen along border of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut just east of Great Bear lake and extended into southern Manitoba. Heavy density remnant smoke was observed in the southeastern portions of the Northwest Territories and northern Saskatchewan. Lighter density remnant smoke expanded into Ontario, Quebec, Hudson Bay and over the Great Lakes region into the Midwest behind a large low pressure system. Several impressive dense smoke plumes were seen in central/northern portions of Alberta and Saskatchewan and were moving to the south-southeast. -Cronin 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