DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0130Z MAY 14, 2009
Extreme Eastern Canada: A broad area of thin smoke was seen in GOES-12 visible satellite imagery today moving eastward across southeast Newfoundland, eastern Quebec, and over the Atlantic Ocean. It is believed this large area of remnant smoke is from fires in Saskatchewan and southern Manitoba two days ago since the smoke has been easy to track across southern Canada over the past two days. At sunset the back edge of the area of smoke appeared to have just cleared to coast of Quebec. Gulf of Mexico/Texas coast: Thin to moderate density smoke extended northward across the western Gulf of Mexico from fires in the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico and Central America over the past few days. The smoke extended northward creating hazy conditions and reduced visibility as it has spread inland along the southeast Texas coast. Sheffler THE FORMAT OF THIS TEXT PRODUCT IS BEING MODIFIED. IT WILL NO LONGER DESCRIBE THE VARIOUS PLUMES THAT ARE ASSOCIATED WITH ACTIVE FIRES. THESE PLUMES ARE DEPICTED IN VARIOUS GRAPHIC FORMATS ON OUR WEB SITE: JPEG: http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/FIRE/hms.html GIS: http://www.firedetect.noaa.gov/viewer.htm KML: http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/FIRE/kml.html THIS TEXT PRODUCT WILL CONTINUE TO DESCRIBE SIGNIFICANT AREAS OF SMOKE WHICH HAVE BECOME DETACHED FROM AND DRIFTED SOME DISTANCE AWAY FROM THE SOURCE FIRE, TYPICALLY OVER THE COURSE OF ONE OR MORE DAYS. IT WILL ALSO STILL INCLUDE DESCRIPTIONS OF BLOWING DUST. ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS REGARDING THESE CHANGES OR THE SMOKE TEXT PRODUCT IN GENERAL SHOULD BE SENT TO SSDFireTeam@noaa.gov