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