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