DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0115Z May 4, 2010
Gulf of Mexico to the Southeast Atlantic Coast: A broad area of Light to isolated moderate smoke from fires in Mexico covers much of the Gulf and Bay of Campeche and stretched northeastward along and ahead of a frontal boundary into the northeast Gulf, across northern Florida and into the Atlantic off the southeast coast of Georgia and northeast Florida. The area in the eastern Gulf and western Atlantic may also be mixed with blowing dust that originated from the Sahara. The smoke is from the numerous fires burning in the Yucatan and Guatemala. Northwest US: A vigorous storm system is circulating strong winds across portions of the Pacific Northwest into the intermountain region. The winds are causing areas of blowing dust. The most prevalent and widespread arwas of blowing dust were from south central Washington eastward across northern Idaho and into northwest Montana. Another area was over south central Oregon and extended east into southwest Idaho. Smaller, more localized areas of dust were seen from west central Nevada near Lovelock and extending eastward into the central part of the state and also over southwest Utah, north of Milford where the dust was moving to the north. Ruminski 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