DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0200 February 25, 2017
SMOKE: SOUTHERN PLAINS/LOWER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY: Several prescribed burns in the Eastern Southern Plains and Western Lower Mississippi Valley are producing light to moderately dense smoke that is traveling towards the southeast. MEXICO: Smoke plumes are observed to be emanating from Tamaulipas and Yucatan, Mexico that are traveling towards the east and north, respectively. The smoke is light in density and appears to be mixing with some unknown aerosol in the Western Gulf of Mexico. BLOWING DUST: Blowing dust originating from the White Sands in New Mexico was observed in satellite imagery traveling Northeast and into Eastern New Mexico. UNKNOWN AEROSOL: An unknown aerosol was observed over the entire Western portion of the Gulf of Mexico. The aerosol appears to be mixed with smoke along the coasts from Mexican fires. The unknown aerosol is moving towards the northeast and into the Central Gulf. -Boll 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