DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1545Z June 3, 2007
Central Canada/Northern US Plains: A large swath of thin smoke can be seen across nearly all of the northern 2/3rds of Alberta, all but the NE corner of Saskatchewan, all of Manitoba, south of the northern tip of Lake Winnipeg), far SW Ontario near the Lake of the Woods into the US. In the US the smoke covers all of North Dakota, South Dakota, the eastern 1/5th of Montana and NW Minnesota. This smoke is from the significant fires burning across northern Alberta and is moving SE across Canada and then turning nearly due south (along the eastern side of the upperlevel ridge) across the northern Great Plains. The thickest area of smoke, maybe to moderate density extends between the southern portions of Lake Manitoba and Winnipeg to along the Red River to the SD boarder. Gulf of Mexico: Very faint smoke can be seen across the northeastern portions of the GoM from emissions from the GA fires earlier this week. It is very faint and covers the Panhandle of Florida and the entire NE GoM bound by 88W to the west, 25N to the south and the west coast of FL. The smoke is moving due east under the influence of ex-Barry. Northern Mexico: Thin smoke from numerous fires along the spine of the Sierra Madre Occidental in the Mexican states of SW Chihuahua, NW Durago and extreme eastern Sinaloa has moved toward the NE covering most of S Chihuahua and along the Coahuila boarder toward the Big Bend region of Texas. Gallina