DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0255Z May 14, 2019
SMOKE:
Midwest...
Light density smoke associated with agricultural fires and lingering from
previous days was spotted in satellite imagery wrapped into cloud activity
over Kansas and Oklahoma. Smoke from fires throughout the mid-western
United States and central Canada has lingered over the plains despite
some cloud activity.
Central Canada...
Lingering smoke observed between breaks in cloud features was observed,
associated with continued fire activity throughout the northwestern United
States and eastern Canada. These fires are producing light density
smoke which is traveling along with cloud activity and transporting it
through central Canada.
Mexico/Central America/Gulf of Mexico...
Fire activity remains high across central-southern Mexico. A large area of
moderate-to-heavy density smoke covers most of central-southern Mexico,
Guatemala, Belize and northwest Honduras. The plume extends to west for
approximately 150 miles over the Pacific ocean waters off southern Mexico,
to the east over the Gulf of Honduras, and to the north-northeast over the
majority of the Gulf of Mexico. Low and variable winds continue to favor
smoke entrapment in the region, with pockets of heavy smoke concentration
covering the Gulf of Honduras, the Mexican states of Oaxaca and Guerrero,
and the western Gulf of Mexico. Additional smoke plumes of light and
medium density were located along the eastern portion of central and
northern Mexico, with plumes extending to the east-northeast.
JL
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