DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1700Z June 4, 2015
SMOKE Central Canada: A broad area of smoke was visible over eastern British Columbia, northern and central Alberta and Saskatchewan, southern Northwest Territories and moving into northwest Manitoba and southwest Nunavut. This smoke was mainly from the remaining active fires in northern Alberta and Saskatchewan. There were patches of moderate density smoke among the expanse of lighter density smoke. Texas: An area of haze is visible throughout the Southern plains from yesterday's burning but notably extending from Texas to the Gulf coast into SW Louisiana. Most of this area of aerosol is believed to be haze/sulfate pollution but there is also likely some small contribution of smoke due to some agricultural/prescribed burning over southern Louisiana and east Texas the past couple of days. DUST Yukon/Alaska: Some plumes of blowing dust are visible moving SE into Yukon, British Columbia, and Alberta this morning. This foreign dust most likely originates from Asia and traveled across the Pacific the last couple of days. It is possible that this dust could be mixed in with smoke from burns occurring there as well. Oegerle 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