DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0215Z April 17, 2010
Southern Mid-West/Southeast US: Light residual smoke remains from past fires as well as from fires burning across the TN Valley and the southeast today across the region and off the mid-Atlantic coast as well as into the northern Gulf of Mexico. Some bigger fires through mostly LA/AL/MS/GA are adding to the large-scale smoke with some small areas of dense smoke within these regions. Moderately dense smoke remains into the central Atlantic getting caught up just behind and within the frontal boundary. Canada and the Northern Great Plains: A plume of unknown origin and composition can still be seen stretching from northern Alberta and northern Manitoba southeastward into eastern North Dakota and Minnesota moving across the ridge axis. Mostly light smoke is also mixing in with this larger scale plume from the many fires that were seen across the northern Plains this evening. This plume, along with the smoke from the fires seems to be digging southward into the central Plains along the eastern side of the ridge. -Belge THE FORMAT OF THIS TEXT PRODUCT IS BEING MODIFIED. IT WILL NO LONGER DESCRIBE THE VARIOUS PLUMES THAT ARE ASSOCIATED WITH ACTIVE FIRES. THESE PLUMES ARE DEPICTED IN VARIOUS GRAPHIC FORMATS ON OUR WEB SITE: JPEG: http://www.osdpd.noaa.gov/ml/land/hms.html GIS: http://www.firedetect.noaa.gov/viewer.htm KML: http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/FIRE/kml.html THIS TEXT PRODUCT WILL CONTINUE TO DESCRIBE SIGNIFICANT AREAS OF SMOKE WHICH HAVE BECOME DETACHED FROM AND DRIFTED SOME DISTANCE AWAY FROM THE SOURCE FIRE, TYPICALLY OVER THE COURSE OF ONE OR MORE DAYS. IT WILL ALSO STILL INCLUDE DESCRIPTIONS OF BLOWING DUST. ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS REGARDING THESE CHANGES OR THE SMOKE TEXT PRODUCT IN GENERAL SHOULD BE SENT TO SSDFireTeam@noaa.gov