DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0230 May 30, 2019
SMOKE:
Northwestern and Western Canada/South Central Canada/Area from the Pacific
Northwest to the extreme Northeastern U.S. and Southeastern Canada...
Large wildfire complexes burning over Northern Alberta with smaller
ones in the the southeastern Yukon and northeastern British Columbia
were responsible for a huge area of smoke which covered much of Western
and Central Canada and extended southward over the North Central and
Northwestern U.S. The smoke also spread to the east in a relatively
narrow band from the Great Lakes Region across the extreme northern part
of the Northeastern U.S. and Southeastern Canada to off the coast over the
Atlantic. The thickest smoke within this region was located over Alberta,
Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and southwestern Ontario Provinces in Canada and
over the region stretching from eastern Montana to Lake Superior and
the U.P. of Michigan. Another patch of thicker smoke was located over
northwestern Montana, northern Idaho, southeastern British Columbia,
and southwestern Alberta.
Mexico/Central America/Gulf of Mexico/Texas/Pacific off the coast of
Mexico and Central America...
A mixture of lingering seasonal burning and wildfires over portions of
Mexico and Central America was responsible for a large mass of generally
thin density smoke covering a good portion of Mexico and the northern
part of Central America as well as the Bay of Campeche, the western Gulf
of Mexico and a good portion of Texas. The smoke also extended to the
south off the southern coast of Mexico and Central America. Moderately
dense to locally thick smoke plumes were mainly confined closer to some
of the more significant fire activity.
Southeast US...
Scattered fire activity over Florida was emitting smoke plumes which were
locally moderately dense to thick but thinned out as they spread to the
north over the Florida Peninsula and into southern Georgia. A larger
region of thin density smoke stretched from southeastern Georgia and
southern South Carolina offshore to the east over the Atlantic. This
smoke may be composed in part from smoke from fires over Florida as
well as lingering smoke from Mexico and Central America which has become
trapped under the upper level high pressure entrenched over the Southeast.
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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/data/land/fire/currenthms.jpg
GIS: ftp://satpsanone.nesdis.noaa.gov/FIRE/HMS/GIS/
KML: http://www.ospo.noaa.gov/data/land/fire/fire.kml (fire)
http://www.ospo.noaa.gov/data/land/fire/smoke.kml (smoke)
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SSDFireTeam@noaa.gov