DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1545Z May 16, 2007
Southeastern US: Dense smoke stretches from 160 nmi southeast to 375 nmi northeast of fires along the Georgia/Florida border or roughly from the northeast Gulf of Mexico to central North Carolina. Light residual smoke extended across the Mid Atlantic and southern New England out into the Atlantic Ocean. Moderate to dense residual smoke was also present from Louisiana south across the central Gulf of Mexico with lighter smoke further to the west. Arizona: A smoke plume extended 105 nmi to the north of a fire in the Tonto National Forest near the Coconino/Gila county border. New Jersey: Smoke extended 105 nmi to the east northeast of fires in Ocean County. Alaska/Canada/US: A large amount of haze of unknown composition and origin stretched from the Arctic Ocean across central Alaska, central Yukon and central Canada southeastward across the central US east of the Continental Divide.