DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 2015Z January 11, 2020
SMOKE: Significant cloud cover over the eastern half of the U.S. significantly limited both fire and smoke detection in satellite imagery. Mexico/Bay of Campeche/Southern Texas... Scattered areas of seasonal burning was responsible for patches of mainly thin density smoke over portions of Mexico and northern Central America as well as extreme southern Texas during the day. An area of thin density smoke from the oil rigs in the Bay of Campeche spread to the northwest during the day. South-central Florida... Light density smoke was visible moving northwest from fires located south of Lake Okeechobee prior to afternoon clouds obscuring visibility. Cuba... A handful of light density smoke plumes were observed moving west from fires on the southern shores of Cuba extending just off of the coast. 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