DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0300Z May 25, 2015
SMOKE Northeastern Alaska/Northwest Canada to Southeast Canada/Northeast US/Atlantic: Similar to this morning, a very large area of light smoke was seen extending from northeastern Alaska into much of Yukon and western Northwest Territories into northern British Columbia, much of Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario and southern Quebec, extending into the Northeast US and into the Gulf of Maine and south of Newfoundland. This broad area of smoke is from numerous wildfires that are burning over a wide area of central and northwest Canada with some small contribution from agricultural fires in southern Saskatchewan. Several small patches of moderately dense to dense smoke exist across central/southern Yukon Territory, northern Alberta and southwest Northwest Territories. A large area of moderately dense smoke with embedded areas of dense smoke were seen over central/southern Alberta into western Montana and also extending to the east into central Saskatchewan and southern Manitoba. Gulf of Mexico: An area of light remnant smoke from the seasonal burning in Central America was seen over the southwest Gulf of Mexico. 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