DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1715Z April 26, 2012
Florida/Southeast Coast: An elongated ribbon of smoke can be seen in this morning's satellite imagery moving across North/Central Florida and off of the southeast coast. This appears to be mostly thin, remnant smoke with some embedded areas of moderate density. The source point for this seems to be from possibly one fire in particular that was burning yesterday and last night near the Apalachicola National Forest. Smoke was still seen coming from the fire even this morning and moving to the northeast towards the Georgia border. Upper-Midwest/Southern Ontario: An area of what appears to be an unknown aerosol can be seen moving southeastward through central/southern Ontario and into portions of the upper-Midwest. Specifically through Iowa and Illinois. There is a good chance that some remnant smoke could be mixed in with the numerous fires that were burning earlier this week across the northern Great plains. It also could have some blowing dust/sand and other particulates mixed in. Belge 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