DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0300Z May 30, 2010
Eastern U.S.: From Missouri to New England, remnant light smoke can be seen from the numerous fires that have been burning in eastern Canada over the past week. This area also reaches to the Gulf coast but is partially obscured by cloud cover. Embedded patches of moderately dense smoke may exist across the area. Alaska/Yukon/Northwest Territories: Numerous large wildfires over Alaska were combining to produce a rather large smoke plume with embedded areas of moderate to extremely dense smoke over a good portion of Alaska, the Yukon and far northwest portions of the Northwest Territories. Gulf of Mexico through the Southern and Central Plains: A large area of aerosols with unknown origin covers a large portion of the Gulf of Mexico and then extends northwest through Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, and the Dakotas. It is believed that at least some of these aerosols contain some remnant smoke from fire activity over Mexico and possibly also from fire activity over Canada. MS 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