DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1600Z May 30, 2007
Southeastern US to the Ohio Valley/Great Lakes region: Morning visible imagery indicates moderately dense to locally dense smoke moving to the west-northwest across southern Georgia and into southeastern and east-central Alabama. This smoke is being emitted by the ongoing large fires in southeastern Georgia. The smoke then likely becomes thinner in density as it spreads to the northwest and to the north across Alabama and Tennessee, through the Ohio Valley and portions of the Midwest to the Great Lakes region including Michigan(both lower and upper), Wisconsin, and portions of Lake Erie, Lake Michigan, Lake Huron, and Lake Superior. Clouds were beginning to obscure part of this large area so additional details on smoke extent and density could not be determined. Farther to the southeast, a swath of haze also appears in visible imagery stretching from West Virginia southeastward across Virginia and the Carolinas to off the Southeast coast. It is possible but cannot absolutely be determined that there is some leftover smoke from the Georgia fires contained within this other region of haze. Over southern Florida, a significant smoke plume of moderate to thick density was observed moving to the west from a growing fire close to the northern and western shores of Lake Okeechobee. The smoke plume was moving in the general direction of Charlotte Harbor. JS