Sunday, May 21st, 2017

DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0100Z May 22, 2017

SMOKE:
Arizona/New Mexico
A wildfire in southern Gila county in Arizona and central Catron county
in southwest New Mexico are producing light to moderately dense smoke.
The smoke is combining and stretching from southeast Arizona and moving
east across western/central New Mexico.

South Florida:
Fires burning in Hendry, Broward and Palm Beach counties are producing
light to moderately dense smoke.   Some smoke has detached and is moving
south across Collier, Miami-Dade, Monroe and Broward counties.  Smoke is
also moving west across Hendry and Lee counties.

Earlier Today:

South Texas and the Gulf of Mexico....
An axis of smoke from fire activity over Mexico extended from South
Texas and the western Gulf of Mexico south along the western Gulf of
Mexico and eastern Mexico towards southeast portions of Mexico.

Mid Atlantic Coast....
An area of aerosol with some contributions from smoke from fire activity
over Mexico was offshore the northern Mid Atlantic coast.

J Kibler

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.