DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0130Z May 27, 2010
Quebec/Northern New England: Numerous wildfires in central Quebec are producing heavy, dense smoke plumes racing to the southeast. These plumes are quite large and are making there way into Vermont and New Hampshire. Gulf of Mexico: A large patch of aerosol/haze was visible through the day moving west across the north-central Gulf of Mexico, close to the Louisiana and Texas coastlines. Upper Midwest: Agricultural burns took place over Nebraska, the Dakotas, and Minnesota producing light smoke earlier this evening. Also, aerosol/haze is currently situated over the state of Michigan. Central US: A swath of aerosol, which is likely partially composed of smoke and possibly even blowing dust, stretches from Texas northward to the Central and Northern Plains. Smoke from the seasonal fires burning in Mexico and Central America may have been drawn northward and could be present in these areas. Additionally, large fires in southern New Mexico and northern New Mexico (near the Colorado border) are producing large smoke plumes which are moving in a northeastward direction and are merging with the band of aerosol over the Plains. 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