DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1800Z April 24, 2019
SMOKE:
Mexico/Central America/Gulf of Mexico/Southern Texas...
A significant amount of ongoing seasonal burning was noted in satellite
imagery across portions of southern and southeastern Mexico and Central
America. This resulted in a large mass of visible smoke covering a good
part of southern and eastern Mexico and Central America as well as off the
southern coast of Mexico and Central America. The smoke also extended to
the north over the Bay of Campeche and up over southern Texas though cloud
cover over Texas limited information on its northward extent. Moderately
dense smoke was seen over the northern portion of Central America,
southeastern Mexico, and over the Bay of Campeche. The thickest smoke was
visible over El Salvador, southern Honduras, and southwestern Nicaragua.
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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