Saturday, May 23 2014

DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1700Z May 24, 2014

South Florida:
A fire burning in southwest Palm Beach county is emitting light to
moderately dense smoke that is fanning E-SE across southern parts of
Palm Beach and parts of northern Broward counties.

Southeast US/Atlantic Ocean
An area of haziness (most likely aerosols) is spreading east from South
Carolina, Georgia, Florida and into the Atlantic can be seen in early
afternoon GOES-13 imagery.

Arizona:
The Slide wilfdire near Flagstaff continues to burn today and is emitting
a plume of light to moderate density smoke that is moving to the north
over northwest Arizona. Cloud cover  farther northwest of the viewed
smoke is blocking the full extent of the smoke coverage.

Alaska:
A large amount of light to moderately dense smoke from the Funny River
fire near Soldotna on the Kenai peninsula was seen over the northern Gulf
of Alaska and parts of southern Alaska just northeast of the wildfire
in/around Anchorage.  The heaviest smoke is near the fire source, but
some is spreading south into the Gulf of Alaska and near Anchorage..

A separate area of mixed light density dust/smoke is seen moving over
western/central and southwest Alaska along the north and west side of
the Alaska Range.

J Kibler

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.ospo.noaa.gov/Products/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

 


Unless otherwise indicated:
  • Areas of smoke are analyzed using GOES-EAST and GOES-WEST Visible satellite imagery.
  • Only a general description of areas of smoke or significant smoke plumes will be analyzed.
  • A quantitative assessment of the density/amount of particulate or the vertical distribution is not included.
  • Widespread cloudiness may prevent the detection of smoke even from significant fires.