DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0245Z April 06, 2011
Pacific Northwest through Southwestern Canada and the Northcentral United States: This evenings satellite imagery indicated a Trans-Pacific transport of blowing dust, likely from east Asia, has begun to enter the Pacific Northwest and portions of southwestern Canada and the north central United States. Northern Mexico and South Texas: Several large fires continue to burn over northern Coahuila this evening just south of the Big Bend Region of Texas. These fires have combined to produce a large moderate to extremely dense smoke plume that was drifting east into portions of South Texas. Also, a large area of thin smoke was evident over the western Gulf of Mexico and portions of extreme South Texas. It is believed that this smoke is remnant smoke from the ongoing fires over Coahuila and also from the large number of agricultural fires over Central and Southern Mexico. Hanna 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