DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1800Z May 2, 2017
SMOKE: Gulf of Mexico/Northeast Mexico and southern Texas... A large area of light to moderately dense smoke from the ongoing seasonal fires in southeastern Mexico and Central America covered much of the Bay of Campeche along with the southwestern and central Gulf. The embedded patch of moderately dense smoke was located more over the Bay of Campeche and extended northward into the west central Gulf. In general this whole area of smoke was lifting north over the western Gulf and spreading into south Texas and up the Rio Grande Valley. Smoke from fires in southern Mexico along the Pacific coast was also surging northward into northeast Mexico and south Texas. Nebraska/Iowa... An area of thin remnant smoke was seen drifting south along the Iowa/Nebraska border area. This smoke is likely from agricultural burning in the northern Plains and southern Canadian prairie provinces. Northwest Canada... An area of aerosol that models suggest is long range transport smoke from Asia was detected over northeast British Columbia and adjoining provinces. This area was drifting east. 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