Saturday, February 11, 2017

DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0015Z February 12, 2017

SMOKE:
An area of light remnant smoke was detected in the central Gulf of
Mexico which is composed of smoke from seasonal fires in Cuba and the
Yucatan. The smoke was slowly drifting to the north.

Numerous fires were again seen today across the Southeast US (mostly
Georgia, South Carolina and Florida) with mostly small, light plumes of
smoke that were moving to the north across Florida and to the northeast
over Georgia and South Carolina. Numerous fires were also seen across
eastern Texas with some larger plumes of light to moderately dense smoke
drifting to the northeast toward the Texarkana area.

BLOWING DUST:
There were several sources of blowing dust this evening. Light and narrow
plumes of dust were seen originating from White Sands in south central
New Mexico and from the Wilcox Playa in southeast Arizona. This areas of
dust were moving to the east northeast. Another somewhat broader area
of blowing dust was seen coming from the loose sandy soils of northern
Chihuahua and moving to the east into far west Texas.

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.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.