DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0115Z May 24, 2007
Eastern US: A tremendous amount of smoke from the Bugaboo and Turnaround fires in southern Georgia continues to circulate through a broad portion of the US east of the Mississippi. Moderate to dense smoke extends westward from the fires along the Georgia/Florida border. The smoke then turns more to the northwest as it curves through most of Alabama and northern Mississippi into western Tennessee. The moderate to dense smoke continues northward across the Missouri Bootheel and along the Indiana/Illinois border. Light to moderate smoke covers most of the area from Kentucky northward through Ohio, Indiana and Michigan into southeast Ontario. South Florida: Numerous fires burning across northern Collier, Hendry, Lee and southeast Charlotte counties are producing moderate to dense smoke that extends to the west into the Gulf of Mexico. The broadest and densest area of smoke is associated with the cluster of fires over northern Collier. The smoke extended about 275 km into the Gulf just before sunset. California: A fire in north central Shasta county has a light to moderately dense plume that extends south and just reaches into northeast Tehama. A fire along the eastern Sierra/Nevada county border along the Nevada state line is producing locally dense smoke that is swirling around. The orientation of the smoke is generally east/west extending from eastern Yuba county in California to Storey county in Nevada. A fire in northern Sonoma county produced a brief puff of smoke that drifted to the south. Mexico: Numerous fires over Sonora, Chihuahua and Durango states are producing several plumes of moderate to locally dense smoke. The most numerous fires and most dense smoke is seen over southwest Chihuahua and northern Durango states. All of the smoke is moving to the east northeast into north central Mexico. Ruminski