DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0245Z May 29, 2017
SMOKE: Gulf of Mexico... Much of the western three fourths of the Gulf of Mexico is covered in mostly light smoke from the seasonal burning in Mexico and Central America. Southwest US... Fires in central and east central Arizona and western New Mexico were generating plumes of light to moderately dense smoke, with locally dense areas near the fires. Cloud cover was hindering detection of the full extent of the plumes but the smoke generally covered a swath across much of central Arizona. Florida... A large fire south of Lake Okeechobee continues this evening and has spread smoke eastward across southern Florida and then fanning out into the Atlantic and northern Bahamas. Another fire west of Cape Canaveral was also generating smoke that was moving to the east into the Atlantic. Mexico: A tremendous number of fires in northwest Mexico from southwest Chihuahua southward was generating a general pall of smoke, with large areas of moderate to locally dense smoke, that covered much of western Mexico and extended well into the Pacific. AEROSOL: Pacific Northwest... An unknown aerosol, was slowly edging eastward from coastal Washington and Oregon to the Cascades. Alberta/Montana... An unknown aerosol was detected this evening along the east slopes of the Rockies over southwest Alberta into central Montana. Ruminski 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