Thursday, May 24, 2007

DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1430Z May 24, 2007

Mississippi Valley, Great Lakes and extreme Southeast:
A large area of thin and moderately dense smoke cover the SE into the
Mississippi River valley into the Great Lakes coming from the Bugaboo and
Turnaround fires in SE GA. The most dense smoke is currently being emitted
from the fires moving due west and is bound by the GA state boarder with
AL to the west and FL to the south and US-82 to the north. Moderately
dense smoke then continues to fan out to the west and northwest across
AL south of US-82 and north of the FL/AL state line into MS where the
smoke continues to move due west in the southern portion of the state,
but is turning northwest and eventually northward across the northern
1/3rd of the state with coverage amazingly bound by I-55 from Memphis
to Jackson and then by US-49 to Hattiesburg,MS.
The smoke then thins out a bit across far western TN (bound by the
Miss. River and Tenn. River.  There is an apparent break in the smoke
or too thin to see easily across KY, ext. SW IN and E IL until about
Champaign/Urbana when thin smoke can be seen moving north again to the
Chicagoland area.  The smoke then becomes more dense (to moderate) in a
100km wide swath from Chicago to the entrance of Saginaw Bay, affecting
Southern Lake Michigan, Holland, Muskegon, Grand Rapids, Mount Pleasant,
Big Rapids, and Midland/Bay City.

Gallina

 


Unless otherwise indicated:
  • Areas of smoke are analyzed using GOES-EAST and GOES-WEST Visible satellite imagery.
  • Only a general description of areas of smoke or significant smoke plumes will be analyzed.
  • A quantitative assessment of the density/amount of particulate or the vertical distribution is not included.
  • Widespread cloudiness may prevent the detection of smoke even from significant fires.