DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1745Z May 18, 2011
South Central to Northeast Canada: A long and narrow band of mostly light smoke can be seen stretching from extreme eastern Saskatchewan through Manitoba and eastward into far eastern Quebec. There is a moderately dense band a smoke that could also be seen near eastern Manitoba through western/central portions of Ontario. This is all likely remnant smoke from the numerous wildfires that have been burning through northern/central Alberta over the past several days. Gulf of Mexico/Eastern Texas A thin area of remnant smoke can be seen across far western Gulf of Mexico and into eastern/southern Texas in this morning and early afternoon's imagery. This is from the many fires continually burning through northern Mexico. Northern Mexico: Numerous fires continue to burn across portions of northern Mexico through southern/central Chihuahua and into Sinaloa and Durango. This is creating a large area of light smoke with embedded moderately dense smoke across this region of northern Mexico and moving eastward. Belge 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