DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1700Z November 21, 2017
Currently: SMOKE: No major areas of remnant smoke were observed in satellite imagery this morning. Only two very small and very thin smoke plumes could be found, one in north-central Arizona and one in southern Alabama. Cloud cover obscures smoke analysis across much of the CONUS and western Canada. DUST: Caribbean Sea... A thin layer of Saharan dust has now grown to cover much of the Caribbean Sea. One small portion now extends from Cuba and the Cayman Islands to eastern Honduras and Nicaragua. The main layer of Saharan dusts extends from central Jamaica and Haiti's Tiburon Peninsula east across the Windward Islands and into the Atlantic Ocean. This layer of Saharan dust is traveling to the west. Hosley 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