DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1700Z July 6, 2017
SMOKE CANADA: Three large areas of remnant smoke were observed in satellite imagery this morning. 1. Wildfires continue to burn in Yukon Territory with smoke spreading horizontally - the western edge reaching the Alaska coast and the eastern edge reaching Central Northwest Territories. 2. Another remnant smoke patch, likely from the same origin, covers eastern Northwest Territories, most of Nunavut, and northern Manitoba and Ontario. 3. An elongated area of light density remnant smoke stretches across central British Columbia and Alberta, and southern Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and Ontario. SOUTHWEST and WESTERN US: Smoke from Wildfires in New Mexico, Arizona, and California are responsible for remnant light density smoke over Nevada, Utah, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, and Colorado. Patches of moderately dense smoke are seen over Colorado. UNKNOWN AEROSOL MIDWEST US: An aerosol of unknown composition was observed this morning over southeast Minnesota, southern Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, northern Indiana, and Michigan. Ramirez 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