Sunday June 01, 2008

DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1800Z JUNE 1, 2008

Updated to include viewing of additional satellite imagery:
South Central Canada/North Central US:
An area of moderately dense to possible even dense smoke (likely aloft)
is seen moving to the east-southeast across southern Saskatchewan
and southwestern Manitoba provinces of Canada and North Dakota.
This smoke is believed to be mainly residual smoke from an intense
fire in southeastern British Columbia Province of southwestern Canada
which produced a pyro-cumulonimbus cloud which was lifted high into the
atmosphere during the late afternoon yesterday.

Great Lakes/Upper Midwest Region:
A swath of haze seen in early morning GOES-West imagery with the favorable
low sun angle stretched from Minnesota and extreme southern Ontario
Province of south central Canada southeastward across the Great Lakes
Region through the Ohio Valley.  This haze may contain some leftover
smoke from a relatively small number of fires in western and central
Canada as well as from the long burning fires in Russia.

Mexico:
Fires in southwestern Mexico continued to emit smoke plumes of varying
density which combined into a larger mass of smoke over southwestern
Mexico and the eastern Pacific off the Mexican coast.  Some haze was
also noted farther to the north into southeastern Arizona, New Mexico,
Texas, and southern Oklahoma.  The haze may also extend farther to the
east but the unfavorable morning sun angle with GOES-East imagery makes
detection difficult.  Some of this haze potentially could be composed
of very thin leftover smoke from the Mexican fires.

 JS

 


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.