DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0300Z May 18, 2010
Currently: Northern and Central Plains/South Central Canada: An area of aerosols and thin smoke can be seen moving north across parts of central Nebraska, South Dakota, most of North Dakota and across a large section of southern Manitoba and southeast Saskatchewan. Most of the smoke seen is from today's fires burning across south central Canada and the northern Plains. Earlier Today: Southeastern Canada/Northeastern US: A very thin aerosol of unknown origin and composition was visible this morning moving to the southeast across southern Quebec Province, Maine, and out over the northwestern Atlantic. Northern and Central Plains/South Central Canada: A band of aerosol approximately 150 miles wide extended from north central Kansas northward to eastern North Dakota. Some additional thin aerosol was noted over southern Manitoba and southern Ontario provinces of south central Canada. It is possible that some of this aerosol is composed of remnant smoke from the significant number of daily fires which have been burning primarily over southern Saskatchewan Province in southern Canada with some contribution from other fires scattered across south central Canada and the north central US. J Kibler 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.osdpd.noaa.gov/ml/land/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