DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1815Z April 6, 2012
Gulf of Mexico: A large area of thin remnant smoke was present this morning over the Gulf of Mexico. A frontal boundary diving southward through the Gulf was depressing this smoke further southward away from the Gulf Coast. Cloud cover in the northwestern Gulf was obscuring some of the smoke along the Texas coast and the smoke extended across parts of Florida off the Southeast US coast. This smoke is from recent fires in Mexico and Central America. Northern Plains/South Central Canada: An area of haziness was observed scattered beneath cloudiness over parts of the Dakotas, Minnesota, and into southern Manitoba. This aerosol could be remnant smoke from fires in the North Central US/south central Canada although it is not definite. Southwest US to Central Rockies: A large storm system moving through the western US was pulling an area of elevated dust particles northeastward across the southwestern US from the southeast California/southwest Arizona region to the Rocky Mountains in Colorado and southeast Wyoming. Sheffler 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