DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0101Z March 28, 2020
SMOKE:
Southeast U.S…
Scattered agricultural fires across the southeastern corner of the
U.S. that were emitting thin, light density smoke plumes that were
moving northeast.
Southern Texas/Mexico/Cuba…
A significant amount of seasonal fires were detected over southern and
southeastern Mexico. A tremendous amount of various density smoke that
spread northwest from larger fires in east central Mexico and continued
to move north across Mexico. There were also several light density smoke
plumes emitting northwest from fires across the Yucatan Peninsula.
Widespread seasonal fires in Cuba produced light to moderate smoke
which generally moved towards the southwest off the southern coast of
the island.
Bahamas…
Fires on the Grand Bahama and Great Abaco were emitting light to moderate
smoke plumes that were moving southwest towards the southeast coast
of Florida.
Blowing Dust...
There was blowing dust seen coming from the northern border of the the
Mexican state of Chihuahua and the White Sands National Park in New
Mexico that was moving across the southeast corner of New Mexico and
western Texas.
Rodriguez
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