DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0200Z June 2, 2012
Canada: A large wildfire located to the west of Lake Athabasca in northeast Alberta is producing a moderately dense to very dense smoke plume. Detached smoke is observed moving east over all of northern Saskatchewan and into the far western parts of Manitoba. Remnant smoke is possibly more expansive than described but heavy cloud cover is preventing the observation of the true smoke boundaries. Southwestern US: Remnant smoke from the Whitewater-Baldy wildfire was visible on satellite imagery this evening, with the heaviest smoke located to the south of the fire. Detached smoke covers much of southern and central New Mexico, southern Arizona, and northern Sonora/Baja California in Mexico. Mexico: Numerous fires in the states of Sonora, Chihuahua, Sinaloa, and Durango are producing a broad area of remnant light density smoke with locally dense plumes moving west that reach as far west as the Baja Peninsula. Ramirez 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