DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0130Z July 27, 2015
SMOKE: Alaska/Yukon Territory: A couple plumes of remnant light density smoke is visible in central Alaska from wildfires burning in that region. This smoke is moving east and has progressed into the Yukon Territory and western parts of the Northwest Territories. Thick cloud cover rotating up from the southern part of the state has largely obscured the wildfires and any resulting smoke over central Alaska. Canada/US: A large area of light remnant smoke is visible over an majority of Canada, including Nunavut, Northwest Territories, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, western Quebec, and parts of Hudson Bay as well as the northern US states of Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and northern Michigan. Some moderately dense smoke is analyzed over the western shore of Hudson Bay as well as over central Ontario into Quebec, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia as the smoke enters the northern US. The smoke continues SE as it passes through the Great Lakes region affecting Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan, and continues through the US Northeast affecting New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine. A majority of this smoke is believed to have been transported around the world from wildfires burning in Siberia. A few fires burning the past two days near Great Slave Lake in northwest Canada and fires in the northwestern US likely have also contributed a little to the smoke mixture in the atmosphere. DUST: Southern US: Saharan dust is present across the far western portion of the Gulf of Mexico and extends north across a majority of Texas wrapping north and northwest across parts of New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Kansas. The dust continues east over Arkansas and Louisiana through the Southeast US. Oegerle 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