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