DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0230Z MAY 31, 2020
SMOKE:
North Central U.S./South Central Canada…
A significant amount of seasonal fire activity across southeastern
Saskatchewan, southern Manitoba, northern and eastern North Dakota,
and northwestern Minnesota resulted in numerous smoke plumes of thin to
locally moderate density which circulated clockwise around an area of high
pressure The plumes merged to form larger patches of leftover smoke in the
region by late in the day. In addition, a swath of what may be remnant
thin density smoke from days of seasonal burning in the aforementioned
areas, was seen late in the day stretching from southwestern North
Dakota and western South Dakota eastward over much of South Dakota,
northeastern Nebraska, southern Minnesota, and a good portion of Iowa.
Mexico/Pacific south of Mexico…
A large amount of seasonal burning continues across western and southern
Mexico which produced large quantities of smoke which generally impacted
western and southern Mexico and offshore from there over the Pacific. The
thickest smoke was again located over southern Mexico and just off the
southern coast of Mexico. Cloud cover across other portions of Mexico,
Central America, and the western and southern Gulf of Mexico prevented
smoke detection in satellite imagery.
DUST:
Oregon/Northeastern California/Nevada…
Rather dense areas of blowing dust were evident in satellite imagery
during the afternoon and early evening over central and south central
Oregon with the dust moving to the east. Additional areas of moderately
dense to thick blowing dust were visible spreading to the east from
a source in northeastern California which moved into northwestern
Nevada. Thicker blowing dust was also seen moving to the east and
northeast from sources in northwestern Nevada and west central Nevada.
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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)
ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS REGARDING THIS PRODUCT SHOULD BE SENT TO:
SSDFireTeam@noaa.gov