DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0112Z April 19, 2023
SMOKE: Central Plains/Eastern U.S./Atlantic Ocean… Heavy seasonal burning is responsible for a large area of mostly light to moderate density smoke which was located over a portions of eastern Texas, eastern Oklahoma,eastern Kansas, eastern Nebraska, to the north into Minnesota and east across the eastern U.S. and over the Atlantic across the eastern U.S. reaching western Nova Scotia this evening. Today’s round of seasonal fire activity caused areas of denser smoke throughout the southeastern U.S., specially in SW Alabama and the eastern Florida Panhandle. SMOKE/AEROSOL: Southern Texas/Gulf of Mexico/Hispaniola/Cuba/Caribbean Sea/Northwestern Central America/Eastern Half of Mexico/Pacific Ocean South of the Southern Coast of Mexico and Central America… Significant and widespread seasonal fire activity in Mexico and Central America resulted in a very large mass of primarily thin to moderate density smoke which blanketed much of southern Mexico south of Texas, northwestern Central America, the Pacific off the coast of southern Mexico and northwestern Central America, the Gulf of Mexico, and southern Texas. Some aerosols from industrial activities originating in Mexico and northwestern Central America. Moderate to even smaller thick density areas of smoke were seen over some of southern and eastern Mexico, northwestern Central America (thick), most of the Gulf of Mexico, Cuba, and the Pacific off the coast of southern Mexico and northwestern Central America. 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