DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0200Z November 30, 2019
SMOKE:
Florida...
Burns in the agricultural region around and south of Lake Okeechobee
were observed today emitting mainly light smoke. many of the individual
smoke plumes melded into a larger area of remnant smoke that moved across
southwestern Florida and just off the coast into the Gulf of Mexico.
Southeastern CONUS...
Dozens of fires were observed from southern Louisiana into southern
North Carolina. The smoke plumes emanating from these fires were mainly
light in nature and were moving clockwise around a high pressure center
over Mississippi and Alabama.
British Columbia into Oregon...
Numerous fires were analyzed across Alberta, British Columbia, Washington,
and Oregon. About a dozen of these fires were observed emitting smoke,
with a number of those in southwestern Oregon were producing moderately
thick smoke. Another fire in central British Columbia was also producing
moderate smoke. The smoke emanating from fires along the Oregon coast was
moving north while the majority of the remaining smoke was moving west.
Elsewhere...
Cloud cover across much of the northwestern CONUS, central CONUS, and
central south-central Canada...from New York to Tennessee to Nevada to
central Manitoba...was covered by clouds. This likely is obscuring at
least some fire activity and smoke emission.
Hosley
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