Thursday, November 29, 2018

DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0000Z November 30, 2018.

SMOKE:
Southeastern CONUS...
Mainly agricultural burns were observed emitting smoke this afternoon and
evening across Florida, Georgia, and far southeastern Alabama. Across
Florida and southern Georgia, smoke was moving west to southwest while
smoke over central and eastern Georgia was moving east all due to the
passing of a surface high pressure center moving though southern Alabama
and southern Georgia. Note that cloud cover over central Florida and
across Alabama, northern Georgia, Mississippi, and Tennessee may be
preventing analysis of smoke in those areas.

Southern Plains...
From Missouri into Texas, scattered light smoke emissions from likely
agricultural burns were observed moving around a low pressure center over
the Kansas/Oklahoma border. Smoke west of 96.5W was moving southeast
while east of 96.5W, smoke was moving northeast. Again it is possible
that more smoke exists across eastern Texas,  Louisiana, much of Arkansas,
and southern Missouri where cloud cover obscured the surface.

Pacific Northwest...
More likely agricultural burning was observed from western Montana
into northern Idaho. Much of the light smoke here was moving west to
northwest. Cloud cover associated with a storm system over northern
California prevents analysis of smoke from any fires across Washington
state, Oregon, southern Idaho, and northern California.

Central British Columbia...
Fire activity was producing mainly light smoke across central British
Columbia. Teh smoke from this activity was moving off toward the east.

BLOWING DUST:
Blowing dust was observed moving northward from northern Baja California
into far southeastern California and far southwestern Arizona.

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/data/land/fire/currenthms.jpg
GIS:    ftp://satpsanone.nesdis.noaa.gov/FIRE/HMS/GIS/
KML:    http://www.ospo.noaa.gov/data/land/fire/fire.kml (fire)
        http://www.ospo.noaa.gov/data/land/fire/smoke.kml (smoke)

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.