DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0300Z May 25, 2017
SMOKE: Southwestern US... Fires in central Arizona and western New Mexico continue to burn and were seen producing light to moderate smoke plumes traveling due east. Pacific Northwest... Fires in southern Oregon were producing light smoke plumes that were traveling east. Central Mexico... Fires have persisted across the Sierra Madre Occidental mountain range. These fires have produced a broad area of light density smoke across central Mexico. Yucatan Peninsula/Eastern Gulf of Mexico/Central Florida A frontal boundary across the central and eastern Gulf is helping transport light density smoke from fires in the Yucatan northeastward across central Florida. DUST: Pacific Northwest... Dust was observed blowing south east out of the Christmas Valley and Summer Lake regions of Oregon. Caribbean... Saharan dust continues to travel east into the Caribbean and was especially noticeable over Puerto Rico. -Westbrook 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