DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0530Z June 02, 2011
Northern Gulf of Mexico/Southeastern United States/Mid-Atlantic/Coastal New England: A large area of thin to locally moderately dense smoke covered an area from the Northern Gulf of Mexico northeast to Coastal New England. The source region for this smoke was likely the large number of fires ongoing over Mexico and also from the persistent fire over the Outer Banks of North Carolina. Canada/Great Lakes States An area of thin smoke covered a large area from northern Alberta, most of Saskatchewan and Manitoba and the southern sections of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut. The smoke then extended from there southeast towards the Great Lakes States. The source region for this smoke was the large wildfire burning over northeastern Alberta. Closer to the fire an area of moderate to extremely dense smoke was seen this evening lifting northeast from the fire into northern Saskatchewan and northwestern Manitoba. California and Nevada: An area of what is believed to be blowing dust was lifting out of the San Joaquin Valley of central California into portions of Nevada. Hanna THIS TEXT PRODUCT IS PRIMARILY INTENDED TO DESCRIBE SIGNIFICANT AREAS SMOKE ASSOCIATED WITH ACTIVE FIRES AND SMOKE WHICH HAS BECOME DETACHED FROM THE FIRES AND DRIFTED SOME DISTANCE AWAY FROM THE SOURCE FIRE..TYPICALLY OVER THE COURSE OF ONE OR MORE DAYS. AREAS OF BLOWING DUST ARE ALSO DESCRIBED. USERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO VIEW A GRAPHIC DEPICTION OF THESE AND OTHER PLUMES WHICH ARE LESS EXTENSIVE AND STILL ATTACHED TO THE SOURCE FIRE 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 ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS REGARDING THIS PRODUCT SHOULD BE SENT TO SSDFireTeam@noaa.gov