DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0530Z June 03, 2011
Northern Gulf of Mexico/Southeastern United States: A large area of moderately dense smoke still covers an area from the Northern Gulf of Mexico east to off the Southeast Coast. The source 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. Northern Mexico through Central United States and into southern Manitoba and southeastern Saskatchewan: This evenings satellite imagery was showing a large area of moderately dense smoke covering a large portion of northern Mexico and extending north-northeast through a large portion of the Southern/Central and Northern Plains and even extending into portions of southern Manitoba and southeastern Saskatchewan. The source for this area of smoke continues to be the large number of fires occurring over Mexico and also with the wildfires currently occurring over Arizona. A large area of extremely dense smoke was embedded within the larger smoke plume extending from the very large wildfire over East Central Arizona and then extending north-northeast to as far as western Nebraska. Smoke analysis was hindered somewhat throughout the entire region due to widespread cloud cover this evening. Canada/Great Lakes States The wildfire over northeastern Alberta was continuing to produce a large smoke plume that extended through northern Saskatchewan and into the southeastern portions of the Northwest Territories and southern Nunavut. The smoke plume then extended from there southeast into portions of southern Ontario. Very dense smoke was located from northeastern Alberta and then lifting northeast towards Lake Athabasca. Smoke analysis was hindered somewhat throughout the entire region due to widespread cloud cover this evening. 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