DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1600Z July 9, 2015
Eastern Canada/Northern New England: Area of primarily light to heavy dense remnant smoke was seen extending from the Hudson Strait across eastern Quebec, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, and northern half of Maine. Moderately dense to heavy dense smoke is primarily concentrated over eastern and southeastern Quebec province. This area of remnant smoke originated from wildfires in central Canada. Central to Southwestern Canada/North-Central and Northwestern US: An expansive area of smoke ranging from light to heavy density was seen in between cloud cover across a large portion of central Canada and extending across the northern tier states of the US. Relatively thick elevated smoke was analyzed from western Ontario across northern Minnesota, North Dakota, eastern Montana. The leading edge of the smoke was seen pushing east across Ontario province and southeast across Minnesota, southward across North Dakota, and drifting more southwest to westward from Montana, northern Idaho and Washington. A second area of embedded moderately to heavy dense smoke was captured in satellite imagery closer to the active wildfires over central Saskatchewan and east-central Alberta provinces. Another area of active fires continuing to produce light to moderate smoke is located over southern British Columbia in southwest Canada. Alaska: Due to extensive cloud cover across the region only a narrow band of smoke could be identified in satellite imagery this morning extending from northwest to east-central Alaska. Several wildfires concentrated in the central part of the state are contributing to the smoke aloft. DUST: Gulf of Mexico/Atlantic Ocean: An area of Saharan dust was seen in satellite imagery over most of the Gulf of Mexico and portions of the western Caribbean. Some of this dust appears to have spread north and east over the Atlantic Ocean along the southeast coast of the US. Warren 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