Sunday, May 24, 2015

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.

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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

 


Unless otherwise indicated:
  • Areas of smoke are analyzed using GOES-EAST and GOES-WEST Visible satellite imagery.
  • Only a general description of areas of smoke or significant smoke plumes will be analyzed.
  • A quantitative assessment of the density/amount of particulate or the vertical distribution is not included.
  • Widespread cloudiness may prevent the detection of smoke even from significant fires.