Wednesday, June 1, 2011

DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0530Z June 02, 2011

Northern Gulf of Mexico/Southeastern United States/Mid-Atlantic/Coastal
New England:
A large area of thin to locally moderately dense smoke covered an area
from the Northern Gulf of Mexico northeast to Coastal New England.
The source region for this smoke was likely the large number of fires
ongoing over Mexico and also from the persistent fire over the Outer
Banks of North Carolina.

Canada/Great Lakes States
An area of thin smoke covered a large area from northern Alberta, most
of Saskatchewan and Manitoba and the southern sections of the Northwest
Territories and Nunavut.  The smoke then extended from there southeast
towards the Great Lakes States.  The source region for this smoke
was the large wildfire burning over northeastern Alberta.  Closer to
the fire an area of moderate to extremely dense smoke was seen this
evening lifting northeast from the fire into northern Saskatchewan and
northwestern Manitoba.

California and Nevada:
An area of what is believed to be blowing dust was lifting out of the
San Joaquin Valley of central California into portions of Nevada.

Hanna

THIS TEXT PRODUCT IS PRIMARILY INTENDED TO DESCRIBE SIGNIFICANT
AREAS SMOKE ASSOCIATED WITH ACTIVE FIRES AND SMOKE WHICH HAS BECOME
DETACHED FROM THE FIRES AND DRIFTED SOME DISTANCE AWAY FROM THE SOURCE
FIRE..TYPICALLY OVER THE COURSE OF ONE OR MORE DAYS. AREAS OF BLOWING DUST
ARE ALSO DESCRIBED. USERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO VIEW A GRAPHIC DEPICTION OF
THESE AND OTHER PLUMES WHICH ARE LESS EXTENSIVE AND STILL ATTACHED TO
THE SOURCE FIRE 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
ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS REGARDING THIS PRODUCT SHOULD BE SENT TO
SSDFireTeam@noaa.gov

 


Unless otherwise indicated:
  • Areas of smoke are analyzed using GOES-EAST and GOES-WEST Visible satellite imagery.
  • Only a general description of areas of smoke or significant smoke plumes will be analyzed.
  • A quantitative assessment of the density/amount of particulate or the vertical distribution is not included.
  • Widespread cloudiness may prevent the detection of smoke even from significant fires.