DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0200Z February 7, 2019.
SMOKE:
Florida...
Numerous fires across central and southern Florida were responsible for
many individual smoke plumes of mainly thin density which moved off to
the west with some of them merging to for larger areas of smoke.
Mexico/Central America/Cuba...
A significant amount of seasonal burning was noted over portions of
Mexico, Central America, and Cuba resulting in patches of primarily thin
density smoke.
DUST:
Southern and Eastern New Mexico/Western Texas/Northern Mexico...
A widespread blowing dust event developed during the afternoon with
dust originating from many sources especially in the northern part
of the Mexican state of Chihuahua. This moderately dense to locally
thick blowing dust spread quickly to the northeast across far western
Texas (including El Paso), southern and southeastern New Mexico, and
northwestern Texas. Additional sources of dust likely included White
Sands in south central New Mexico.
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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