DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0145Z April 3, 2015
SMOKE Western/Southern Gulf of Mexico: Light to moderate density remnant smoke was seen in GOES-13 satellite imagery over the western and southern Gulf of Mexico. The remnant smoke originated from today's and yesterdays agricultural burning in the Yucatan Peninsula and Cuba as well as oil rigs off the coast of Mexico in the southern Gulf of Mexico. Moderate density smoke in the western Gulf of Mexico can be seen moving north to the Texas coastline while light smoke originating from Cuba moves west. DUST East Pacific/Western US: A large area of elevated dust that originated from Asia has moved onshore in western US while a frontal boundary lags behind. The elevated dust is visible in GOES-15 imagery in northern California, Washington and Oregon as it moves eastward but is obscured in British Columbia as the frontal boundary moves onshore. -Cronin 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