DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0200Z July 3, 2016
SMOKE: Southern Canada to Northwestern Canada and Alaska: A large area of light remnant smoke from fires over the Northwest Territories, northern Saskatchewan and northern Alberta extends from portions of southern Ontario northern Michigan and extends northwest to portions of northwest Canada and eastern Alaska. An area of moderate density smoke was seen over the Northwest Territories. Multiple light to heavy density smoke plumes were seen moving north in northeast Alberta, northern Saskatchewan and southeast of Great Slave Lake in the Northwest Territories. Another group of wildfires in northeast Manitoba were seen emitting light to moderate density smoke to the south. California: An area of light to moderate density smoke was seen fanning out to the north and west from the wildfire named Pine in Ventura county. Another wildfire in the Sierra foothills named Trailhead was emitting a light to heavy density smoke plume to the northeast. DUST: Gulf of Mexico/Texas/Lower Mississippi River Valley/Southeast US: An area of Saharan dust was seen spanning from the western portions of the Gulf of Mexico north into eastern Texas, and eastern Oklahoma. This area of dust possibly mixed with remnant smoke and sulfates in the Lower Mississippi River Valley and the Southeast US. Cloud cover obscured the extent of this aerosol to the north. -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