DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0200Z September 26, 2019
SMOKE: Pacific Northwest... Widespread fire activity was observed across much of the area from western Montana into northern California. Associated smoke plumes ranged from light to quite thick in density. Smoke across eastern Washington, northern Idaho, and western Montana was moving east while smoke across Oregon and northern California was moving south to southwest. Southern Mississippi Valley... Agricultural burning across eastern Texas, Louisiana, southern Arkansas and western Mississippi was producing light to moderate smoke plumes this afternoon. These smoke plumes were generally moving off toward the north to northeast. Georgia... Continued prescribed agricultural burning across eastern and southern Georgia was observed producing mainly light smoke that moved eastward across the state and, for one or two smoke plumes, into southern South Carolina. Southern Yucatan... Significant flaring of oil rigs, combined with moderate activity across southern Mexico, are producing a large area of light to moderately thick smoke across the southern half of the Yucatan Peninsula. this smoke is moving southeast. 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