DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1700Z May 15, 2015
SMOKE: Western Canada/Central Canada: An area of moderate to heavy density smoke from a large wildfire burning near Prince George in central British Columbia was seen this morning moving south from the fire into southwest British Columbia. Light density residual smoke from the fire also extended along and off the British Columbia coast from Vancouver Island northward into southeast Alaska, although the full extent of the smoke could not be determined accurately due to cloud cover over the eastern Gulf of Alaska. The smoke then curled to the east along the British Columbia/Yukon border. An area of very light residual smoke, possibly a mix of smoke from the Prince George fire and trans-Pacific smoke from Asian fires, was seen over a broad area of central Canada from southern Northwest Territories into northern Alberta, northern Saskatchewan and northeast British Columbia. Western Gulf of Mexico: An area of light density residual smoke from the seasonal burning in Mexico and Central America can be seen from the Bay of Campeche northward and then northeastward into the central Gulf of Mexico. Ruminski THIS TEXT PRODUCT IS PRIMARILY INTENDED TO DESCRIBE SIGNIFICANT AREAS OF 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.ospo.noaa.gov/Products/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