DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0300Z April 22, 2017
SMOKE: Florida... The Parliament fire located in Collier County of southwestern Florida continued to burn through the day emitting moderately dense to locally thick smoke which moved to the west and off the coast over the eastern Gulf of Mexico. The Smoke then thinned out as it fanned out spreading farther to the northwest nearly reaching the central Gulf Coast region. Bay of Campeche...Smoke from the ongoing seasonal fires in southern and southeastern Mexico and Central America was confined to the Bay of Campeche, overland across southern and southeastern Mexico, and out over the Pacific off the southern Mexico coast. DUST: New Mexico/Texas... A thin density aerosol which may be leftover blowing dust was seen over northeastern New Mexico, as well as northern and western Texas. Cloudiness farther to the north though limited detection over far northwestern Texas, and Oklahoma. JS Earlier This Morning... AEROSOL: An area of unknown aerosol was observed this morning off Western and Baja California over the Pacific Ocean. The NASA GMAO 2D model suggests the aerosol is blowing dust originating from Asia. The air mass is seen moving towards the south and along the coast. -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