DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0400Z June 7, 2010
Alaska/Canada/Great Lakes: An expansive area of light to moderate smoke extended from the central Northwest Territories southeast to the northern Plains and northern Great Lakes. The densest portion of the plume appeared to cover a large portion of Manitoba and the western part of Hudson Bay. The smoke plume over the Yukon and Alaska was not as evident as earlier today but still individual smoke plumes were evident from their respective fires, particularly the large fire over the central Yukon that featured a very dense smoke plume that was drifting into northeastern Alaska. The source for the large smoke plume continues to be persistent fire activity over northern Saskatchewan, the Northwest Territories, Yukon and Alaska. Gulf of Mexico/Texas/Louisiana: A large area of mostly thin smoke covered the western Gulf of Mexico and has also pushed inland into portions of eastern Texas and northwest Louisiana. The source for this smoke is believed to be the large number of agricultural fires that continue over Mexico and Central America. Further to the west, this evenings satellite imagery revealed aerosol of unknown source and composition covering most of Texas and Oklahoma. It is possible that some of this aerosol may be remnant smoke from either the fire activity over Mexico/Central America or possibly from yesterdays fire activity over New Mexico. Arizona: An area of what is believed to be thin smoke from yesterdays and todays fire activity over southeastern New Mexico was drifting northwest through the Rim Country of Arizona. It is also possible that some remnant blowing dust may be mixed in with this area of smoke. Hanna 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