Monday, May 5, 2008

DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0200Z May 6, 2008

Florida:  A large fire continues to burn on the west shore of lake
Okeechobee in southeast Glades county producing light to moderately
dense smoke which extends to the east-southeast across the southern
portion of the lake,  extreme northeast Hendry county and western Palm
Beach county into the Atlantic.  A fire in Nassau county in northern
Florida generated light smoke which extended 200km off shore into the
Atlantic.  Along the east coast of FL in S. Volusia county there is a fire
emitting light to moderately dense smoke which is moving east offshore.
Another fire in N. Highlands county emanated light to moderately dense
smoke which was seen extending a few miles east before weather clouds
obscured observations.

Arkansas:  About 40 miles west of Little Rock, in northern Saline county,
a fire is producing light to moderately dense smoke which is moving north.

From visible imagery earlier this morning...
South Central Canada/Northern Plains/Northern Great Lakes: A remnant
area of light smoke, likely from the numerous agricultural fires in
the northern Plains and southern prairie provinces of Canada on Sunday,
was seen earlier this morning across the northern Great Lakes extending
from western Lake Superior across the upper peninsula of Michigan,
the northern portion of lower Michigan and Lake Huron.

During the afternoon, more fires were detected across the same general
region of North Dakota, western Minnesota, and Manitoba/Saskatchewan
provinces of south central Canada but patchy cloudiness across the region
prevented much in the way of smoke detection.

Ruminski/Salemi


 


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.