DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0400Z November 21, 2016
SMOKE: SOUTHEASTERN ATLANTIC COAST: Wildfires continued to burn in the central and southern Appalachians with smoke plumes quickly spreading to the southeast. In addition, a patch of leftover thin density smoke also was visible just off the coast of Georgia and South Carolina. LOUISIANA: Numerous agricultural fires in southern Louisiana are producing light smoke plumes that are traveling south and congealing into larger patches of thin density smoke over southern Louisiana and offshore over the Gulf of Mexico. FLORIDA: Agricultural fires in southern Florida most likely in the sugar cane agricultural region near Lake Okeechobee are producing light plumes of smoke that are traveling south. -Westbrook 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