DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1800Z May 16, 2016
SMOKE: The ongoing wildfires near Ft McMurray in northeast Alberta along with other fires in northeast British Columbia continue to produce copious amounts of smoke. Remnant smoke from these fires blankets much of eastern and central Alberta and Saskatchewan and continues into eastern Montana, the Dakotas, southern Minnesota and northern Iowa into southern Wisconsin. Separate patches of smoke were also seen over Manitoba and the Minnesota/Manitoba/Ontario border area. The thickest smoke, some of which was very dense, was over northern Alberta and Saskatchewan. Separate patches of light smoke from previous days was seen over eastern Ontario and also from southern Lake Huron across western and southern Pennsylvania and off the mid Atlantic coast. Another area of very light remnant smoke was over the Outer Banks of North Carolina. Finally, an area of light smoke was over the open Atlantic south of Newfoundland and east of Nova Scotia. 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