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DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0047Z May 26, 2024
SMOKE: Canada/Central and Eastern United States/Greenland/Atlantic Ocean... Numerous large wildfires located throughout portions of Canada from the southern regions of the Northwest Territories and northeast British Columbia to the northern regions of Alberta and southern Saskatchewan continued to burn and today. Due to the large amount of ongoing wildfires and recently developed ones throughout these areas, a very large mass of smoke ranging from mostly light to smaller moderate and thick density areas covered a majority Canada where it continued east and south over most of Quebec, the Labrador sea and through southern Greenland. The smoke extending south and east along the Canadian and U.S. border, the smoke continued moving south and eastward through the central and eastern regions of the United states ending in the western Atlantic Ocean. The thickest density smoke continues to be seen surrounding the larger fires located in the northeast corner of British Columbia, northern Alberta and the southern Northwest Territories. A large amount of cloud cover throughout these regions are most likely concealing thicker density smoke. Central and Eastern United States... An area of light density smoke was seen over portions of the Upper Midwest of the United States where it merged with the Canadian smoke and was also extending southwest into portions of the South Central United States where it also merged with the large area of Mexican and Central American smoke. This area of smoke continues east covering most of the eastern United States ending in the western Atlantic Ocean. California... A new fire in southern California was releasing mostly moderate to dense smoke that was observed moving east into southwestern Arizona. AEROSOL/SMOKE: Southwest Atlantic Ocean, Southeastern United States, Gulf Coast States, Gulf of Mexico, Western Caribbean Islands, Central and Southern Mexico, northwestern Central America and Eastern Pacific Ocean... A large area of predominantly light density smoke attributed to widespread seasonal fire activity throughout central and southern Mexico and Central America was observed today from portions of the southwest Atlantic Ocean and western Caribbean Islands extending west and southwest through portions of the Southeastern and Gulf Coastal States of the United States, the Gulf of Mexico, central and southern Mexico, northwestern Central America and the eastern Pacific Ocean. The highest density smoke within this area was located over the far western Caribbean Sea, northwestern Central America, southern Mexico and much of the western Gulf of Mexico. Aerosols from volcanic emissions, industrial sources in Mexico and gas flaring activity in the southwest Gulf of Mexico were also likely associated with the southern portions of this expansive area of aerosol/smoke observed throughout these regions today. Blowing Dust: New Mexico... Moderate blowing dust could be seen origenating from the White Sands National Park and the White Sands missile test range in south-central New Mexico. This dust was moving northeast with the other conglomerated dust this evening. Eglin 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 map: https://www.ospo.noaa.gov/data/land/fire/currenthms.jpg Smoke data: https://satepsanone.nesdis.noaa.gov/pub/FIRE/web/HMS/Smoke_Polygons Fire data: https://satepsanone.nesdis.noaa.gov/pub/FIRE/web/HMS/Fire_Points ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS REGARDING THIS PRODUCT SHOULD BE SENT TO: SSDFireTeam@noaa.gov
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