Wednesday, November 07, 2007

DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0200Z November 08, 2007

British Columbia:
Cloud cover prevents observation of smoke from the numerous fires in
southern and central British Columbia.

U.S. West Coast
There are fires scattered throughout Washington, Oregon and northern
California, but only fires in Coos County Oregon, Curry County, Oregon
Mariposa County, California and Shasta County, California have observable
plumes of light smoke.

Saskatchewan, Manitoba and North Dakota:
Very numerous agricultural fires in southern Saskatchewan, southern
Manitoba and northern and eastern North Dakota are producing only a few
plumes large enough to see in GOES satellite imagery.  The plumes are
light smoke and extend southeastward.

Southeastern U.S. and adjoining states:
There are very numerous agricultural burns especially in southern
Missouri, Arkansas, eastern Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama,
and Georgia, and to a lesser extent Kentucky, Tennessee, Florida and
South Carolina. Some of these fires are producing smoke plumes, generally
narrow plumes of light or moderate smoke that extend southward. A bright
and persistent fire near the Louisiana coast is producing a very long
but narrow plume of moderate smoke that extends southwestward far into
the Gulf of Mexico.  Much of this plume is roughly parallel to the coast
of Texas.  The last visible imagery of the day shows the plume to be
about 50 km east of the Texas coast but some of the plume does seem to
be moving slowly and erratically toward Texas.

 


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.