DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0345Z March 9, 2012
Southeast US: Numerous agricultural burns in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, and the Carolinas were mapped but due to high cloud coverage many smoke plumes that are believed to be present were not detected on visible imagery. North Carolina: A large fire in Carteret County, NC produced a locally thick density smoke plume with light density remnants extending NNE over the coastal Atlantic as far north as the MD coastline. North Central California: Small burns in central CA are producing light density smoke plumes that are collectively responsible for an area of light remnant smoke intermixed with patches of moderate density smoke that mainly covers Yolo, Colusa, and Glenn counties. *Baja Peninsula: Appears that an area of blowing dust is moving from the west central coast of the Baja Peninsula west out over the Pacific Ocean. Ramirez THIS TEXT PRODUCT IS PRIMARILY INTENDED TO DESCRIBE SIGNIFICANT AREAS 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.osdpd.noaa.gov/ml/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