DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0300Z May 7, 2019
SMOKE:
Southern Texas/Mexico/Central America/Gulf of Mexico/Pacific...
More significant seasonal burning across portions of Mexico and Central
America resulted in a very large area of smoke which covered much
of central and southern Mexico, Central America, much of the Gulf of
Mexico, and off the southern coast of Mexico and Central America over
the Pacific. The thinner portion of the smoke also appeared to extend
inland over southern Texas. Thicker areas of smoke were located over
the western Gulf of Mexico and the Bay of Campeche along with portions
of far southern Mexico and Central America and off the southern coast
of Mexico and Central America.
Southern Canada/North Central U.S...
Seasonal fires scattered over far south central Canada as well as North
Dakota and Minnesota were responsible for many individual smoke plumes
of primarily thin density over the region.
Northwestern U.S...
A few fires scattered over Oregon, Washington, and Idaho produced thin
to moderately dense smoke plumes which moved generally to the south.
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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