Saturday, April 19, 2008

DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0300Z April 20, 2008

Central Plains and neighboring areas:
Widespread and numerous agricultural burns are seen throughout the area
occasionally accompanied by isolated, mostly light smoke plumes large
enough to see in GOES imagery.  However in eastern Kansas the fires are
exceptionally dense and the resulting smoke forms a large, apparently
continuous, area of light to moderate smoke approximately bounded by
39.5N 96.9W, 39.5N 95.8W, 37.7N 94.8W, 37.0N 95.3W, 38.1N 96.9W, and
39.5N 96.9W. In Oklahoma, mostly due to fires centered in and around
Ellis County, there is a smaller area of light to moderate smoke.

New York:
The fire in southern Ulster County continues to burn today, producing
a plume of light smoke that extends northward into Greene County.

Nevada, Idaho and Utah:
Two plumes of thick dust can be seen in northern Nevada blowing
northeastward into southwestern Idaho.  An area of northward-moving dust
seen in western Utah earlier today has become fainter.

Northern Gulf of Mexico:
A mix of smoke from Mexican agricultural burns and haze can be seen
trailing along following the front in an east-west direction.  It is
offshore for most of the Gulf Coast states and is moving farther offshore
but some of the lighter smoke and haze does curve northward and extend
into northeastern Florida.









 


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.