DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1630Z June 4, 2010
Alaska/Canada: A tremendously long area of thin smoke with more dense embedded patches, resulting from a number of significant fires scattered primarily across northwestern Canada and Alaska, was observed this morning extending from at least the eastern half of Alaska and the Arctic Ocean eastward across the Yukon, the Northwest Territories, and the western and central portion of the Nunavut Territory of Canada. The smoke then continued eastward and southeastward across much of central Canada to southeastern Canada where it then curved eastward across Newfoundland and out over the Labrador Sea and the northwestern Atlantic. New Mexico/Western Texas: A batch of thin density smoke was visible this morning moving to the southeast from several fires detected over western New Mexico. The smoke covered southern New Mexico and the far western portion of Texas. Southern Plains/Middle Mississippi Valley/Southeast/Middle Atlantic Region: A large mass of aerosol was visible this morning across much of the Southern Plains extending eastward over much of the Southeast and the Middle Atlantic Region around North Carolina and the Delmarva. It is possible that some remnant smoke from the New Mexico fires as well as from the ongoing seasonal fires burning in Mexico and Central America may be present in this region, though the actual contribution of smoke to the aerosol seen in satellite imagery is uncertain. Gulf of Mexico: Smoke from the ongoing seasonal fires burning in Mexico and Central America was present over the Bay of Campeche and a good portion of the central and southern parts of the Gulf of Mexico. The thin density smoke also appeared to be very close to or over the south central portion of the Florida peninsula. JS 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