DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 2345Z February 01, 2014
Blowing Dust South Texas: An area of light blowing dust was possible over far south Texas this afternoon/evening. Aerosol was seen in satellite imagery moving north as far as around Kingsville and Alice. The source area over south Texas and northern Mexico has been a source of dust in the past but the aerosol may also be primarily or at least partially haze. Smoke Southern California: There were a large number of agricultural fires noted again today in the southern portion California's central valley. By sunset, the cumulative affect of these numerous small fires was an area of smoke that covered much of the southern portion of the valley. There was also an area of aerosol off the southern California coast from roughly the Channel Islands southward. It is not certain whether there may be some remnant smoke from yesterdays agricultural fires in the central valley or whether it is all haze. This area was not included in the smoke graphic depiction (web location below). Ruminski 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.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