DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1415Z April 11, 2012
Gulf of Mexico/Southeast Atlantic Coast: A broad area of light remnant smoke, with embedded patches of moderately-dense smoke, still remains across portions of northeastern Florida peninsula and then stretching east over the Atlantic. Area of smoke is located ahead of a surface cold frontal boundary that extends across central Florida and then northeast from east coast of Florida over the western Atlantic. Smoke is due in large part from a rather large wildfire (County Line wildfire) burning in northeast Florida near the Georgia border. New smoke from the County Line wildfire is quickly spreading south and east per mid-morning satellite imagery. The Gulf of Mexico does appear a bit hazy this morning and some remnant smoke may still be lingering across the northern half of of gulf, but no real well-defined boundaries can be noted to be able to analyze. The evening GOES-EAST pass over the area should provide a better view given more favorable sun-angle present at that time of day. Central and Northern Plains: An elongated area of aerosol is seen stretching across the Central and Northern Plains. The aerosol is believed to be predominantly elevated dust from Asia. It is also possible that some remnant dust may be mixed in with the dust from yesterday's fires that were burning across the northern plains. Warren 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