DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1700Z August 8, 2015
SMOKE Alaska: The smoke from the Alaskan wildfires is getting shunted to the east ahead of a frontal system this morning sweeping through western Alaska. The smoke covers most of the eastern half of the state and the western portion of Yukon Territory. Moderately dense to dense smoke was mostly over northeast Alaska, although clouds now cover the fires in the central part of the state and are prohibiting smoke detection. Northern Canada: Similar to yesterday, smoke from fires around Great Slave and Great Bear Lakes extended to the east and northeast. The smoke covered much of Great Slave Lake and and stretched to the northeast, mixing with clouds, nearly reaching the northwest shore of Hudson Bay. Much of the smoke around the vicinity of Great Slave Lake was moderate to dense. Northeast Canada: A broad area of light smoke was seen over northeast Quebec and northern Newfoundland and Labrador, crossing the Davis Straight reaching the southwest coast of Greenland. Pacific Northwest: A plume of light to moderately dense smoke from the Wolverine fire in the northern Cascades of Washington extended to the north into southern British Columbia. Smoke from the numerous wildfires burning in northwest California blanketed the northern portion of the state extending into far southern Oregon, southwest Idaho and the northern half of Nevada. The smoke also extended to the south of the fires along and off the coast to a position west of Point Conception. The smoke is moderate to dense over nearly all of northern California from about Lake Tahoe and San Francisco north to the Oregon border. Ruminski 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