DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1700Z May 27, 2008
Canada/Montana/Northern North Dakota, Minnesota and Wisconsin and the Gulf of Alaska: A large area of light to moderately dense smoke stretches across a large portion of southern Yukon and southwestern Northwest Territories into northeast British Columbia and most of Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and western Ontario. The smoke also reaches parts of northeast North Dakota and northern Minnesota and Wisconsin. The thickest smoke extends across southern Alberta into southern Manitoba. The source of the smoke is most likely from the eastern Russia fires. An area of very light smoke from these fires also is moving southeast across the Gulf of Alaska and is nearing the western Canadian coast. Southeast US: An area of haze possibly mixed with light smoke from the fires burning across Mexico is stretching across sections of central Georgia and South Carolina, central and eastern North Carolina and moving north into southeast Virginia. Texas: In the western region, light smoke from fires in Mexico has drifted northward into the state. J Kibler