DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0300Z March 7, 2016
SMOKE... Central and South Central US/Southeastern US: Fires were not nearly as numerous as yesterday though fires were still detected scattered across a similar area over the Central and South Central region and across the Gulf Coast states. Visible smoke seen in satellite imagery was also less than yesterday though cloudiness passing over the Central and South Central US likely interfered in additional smoke detection especially in those areas. BLOWING DUST... Southern California/Far Southern Nevada/Western Arizona: Gusty westerly winds over Southern and Southeastern California kicked up blowing dust from a number of different point sources which became visible around 20Z and continued through sunset. Some of the blowing dust consolidated into a thin to moderately dense north-south oriented band which moved east affecting far southern Nevada and western Arizona in addition to southeastern California. JS 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