DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0145Z May 07, 2007
Southeast US: A large fire along the Volusia-Flagler county line generated a light to moderate plume of smoke extending east into the Atlantic. Clouds and thunderstorms then obscured any smoke detection during the afternoon and evening. Fires in western Broward and southern Monroe were producing light to moderate smoke that was drifting south across the Florida straights. Fires were detected over Ware, Charlton and Atkinson counties in southeast Georgia but extensive cloud cover inhibited detection of active smoke this afternoon and evening. However, residual light to moderately dense smoke from overnight and yesterday could be seen in an arc across much of Alabama and Mississippi. Gulf of Mexico and Gulf Coast States: Light to moderately dense smoke from fires in Central America continues to be seen over the western Gulf of Mexico into south Texas. Minnesota: A large fire in western Cook county in the arrowhead region of Minnesota was producing moderately dense to dense smoke that was moving north into southwest Ontario. Alberta, Saskatchewan and Montana: An area of light aerosol was seen before sunset over southern Alberta and Saskatchewan and north central Montana. The source and conmposition of this area is unknown. It is possible that it has been transported a long distance..perhaps originating from the large fires in southern Siberia. Idaho: A fire in southwest Shoshone county weas producing a narrow plume of thin smoke that extended to the east reaching the Montana border. Mexico: Numerous fires were seen burning in western Durango state in northwest Mexico in the Sierra Madre Occidental range. The plumes were narrow and light to moderately dense and they extended to the east northeast but remained well south of the Big Bend. A large fire in southern Nuevo Leon state, south of Monterrey, was producing an area of moderately dense to dense smoke. The plume extended to the east northeast reaching just south of Brownsville. A separate extension of the plume at a different level dig reach into south Texas from Laredo eastward. Ruminski