DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1630Z May 31, 2017
SMOKE: Northwestern into central Canada and the northern US Plains.... Smoke from a mix of wildfires and seasonal burning was covering portions of the area from Northwest Territories into Saskatchewan and Manitoba and into North Dakota. The wildfires were burning in far southwest Northwest Territories and extreme southeast Yukon with another detected in northeast Saskatchewan. Cloud cover across this region made smoke detection difficult this evening. The seasonal agricultural burning was occurring across southern Saskatchewan and southwest Manitoba and the Dakotas. Mexico... A large area of thin to moderately dense smoke from the ongoing seasonal burning was seen this evening mainly over northwestern Mexico. DUST... Caribbean... An area of thin Saharan dust remains visible this evening covering much of the Caribbean and slowly making its way westward toward the Yucatan. 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