DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1730Z July 6, 2012
US: Remnant smoke from large wildfires burning mainly in portions of Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, and Utah over the past several days/weeks can be seen in visible imagery covering a large part of the US from the Rockies to the Eastern Great Lakes, the mid Atlantic, and the Southeast. The smoke is primarily light density but a moderate density area can be seen in and around the Ohio River Valley. w Western US/Southwestern Canada: A thin band of light to moderately dense remnant smoke stretches from the eastern Pacific ocean over the states of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana in the US and southern Alberta and Saskatchewan in Canada. This smoke is believed to be from fires burning in Siberia. Northwestern Canada: A North-South oriented band of remnant light density smoke is observed along the Yukon-Northwest Territories border in western Canada. The smoke continues to stretch south into British Columbia before being swept east into Alberta. This smoke was also believed to be from the fires burning in Siberia. Ramirez THIS TEXT PRODUCT IS PRIMARILY INTENDED TO DESCRIBE SIGNIFICANT AREAS 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.osdpd.noaa.gov/ml/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