DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1630Z May 29, 2009
Great Lakes into mid Mississippi Valley: Remnant thin smoke from the past few days in the wheat belts of the Dakotas and southern prairies of Canada have drifted to the southeast and now covered portions of central Michigan, much of Indiana, southern and central Illinois, far western Kentucky, eastern and central Arkansas and Missouri. The smoke was mostly quite thin. Northern Canada: A thin ribbon of unknown aerosol was seen in an arc stretching from Great Slave Lake in Northwest Territory southeastward across Lake Athabasca toward Reindeer Lake in northern Saskatchewan. Gulf of Mexico: Remnant smoke from numerous fires in Mexico/Guatemala fires was mainly confined to the southern Gulf of Mexico as a frontal zone has pushed south into the northern Gulf. The smoke was mainly south of 25N and west of 85W. A patch of moderately dense smoke was seen over the southwest Gulf into the Bay of Campeche. Ruminski 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