DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0330Z May 10, 2017
SMOKE: Florida/Georgia/Eastern Gulf of Mexico/Western Atlantic... The West Mims wildfire was still producing an area of dense smoke which spread eastward over northeastern Florida during the day. A larger region of thin to moderately dense smoke moved to the south covering much of the Florida peninsula. The smoke fanned out as well as it moved southward with some of it shifting west and off the west coast over the eastern Gulf of Mexico while another portion of the smoke exited the east coast of Florida and over the western Atlantic. Texas/Mexico/Western Gulf of Mexico... A large area of thin to moderately dense smoke from the ongoing seasonal fires burning in Mexico and Central America blanked much of Mexico as well as the Bay of Campeche and the western Gulf of Mexico. The smoke appeared to reach into southern and central Texas and possibly farther to the north though cloudiness interfered with detection from satellite imagery. Unknown Aerosol: South Central US... An Unknown aerosol which may be at least partly composed of leftover smoke from the Mexican and Central American fires as well as smoke from some of the larger recent burning occurring in the south central US (especially the fires in far eastern Texas and Louisiana) was seen across the region from Oklahoma and Kansas eastward to Kentucky and Tennessee. DUST: Northern Mexico/Southern New Mexico/Western Texas... An area of thin to moderately dense blowing dust originated from a number of sources in northern Mexico and spread to the east and northeast into southern New Mexico and far western Texas including El Paso. Cloudiness over much of the remainder of the Southwestern US limited additional dust detection from satellite imagery. JS 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