DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0130Z March 23, 2020
SMOKE:
Florida…
Light smoke emitted by fires south of Lake Okeechobee was moving off
towards the northwest throughout the day today. A few smoke plumes merged
over Lake Okeechobee and continued to move northwest upon merging.
Northern California/Oregon…
Fire activity was noted across the northern Sacramento Valley and across
western and norther Oregon. The smoke from the activity in the northern
Sacramento Valley was mainly moving off toward the north, but only after
initially moving off toward the south early this afternoon. The smoke
across Oregon was mainly moving off toward the east or east-northeast. One
fire in northeast Oregon was producing a larger area of moderate
smoke. Outside of this fire, the smoke produced was fairly light.
Cuba…
Widespread fire activity was observed throughout much of Cuba this
afternoon and evening. Much of this activity was emitting light smoke that
was moving off toward the west-southwest. One exception was smoke from a
fire in far northern Cuba, where the smoke was moving north-northwest,
approaching the Dry Tortugas. A couple fires were producing moderate
density smoke.
Yucatan/Bay of Campeche/Isthmus of Tehuantepec…
Numerous fires and gas flaring activites were observed producing mainly
light smoke with a few moderate smoke plumes scattered throughout. The
smoke from these fires was observed moving off mainly towards the
west-northwest with the exception of the smoke coming out of the gas
flaring in the Bay of Campeche, which is moving north-northwest.
-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