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