DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1630Z May 05, 2015
SMOKE Mid Atlantic: Two narrow patches of light remnant smoke, likely from the fires in Siberia, were detected this morning. One was seen over central Virginia and the other extending from the central Virginia/North Carolina border southwestward into northern South Carolina. Northwest Territories Canada: A narrow patch of light remnant smoke was seen between Great Slave Lake and Great Bear Lake. SMOKE and DUST Northern US and southern Canada: An elongated and very extensive area of aerosol was seen stretching from northern California northeastward into Idaho and western Montana and then curving eastward across southern Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario and Quebec and North Dakota, northern Minnesota, northern Michigan and Lake Superior. NASA and Naval Research Lab aerosol forecasts suggest that this aerosol is a mix of smoke and blowing dust that was transported across the Pacific. Ruminski THIS TEXT PRODUCT IS PRIMARILY INTENDED TO DESCRIBE SIGNIFICANT AREAS OF 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.ospo.noaa.gov/Products/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