DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1800Z April 02, 2020
SMOKE:
Southeast U.S.…
Several fires south of Lake Okeechobee in southern Florida were
observed to be emitting mostly brief plumes of thin smoke moving
westward. Additional fires in southern Alabama, the Florida Panhandle,
eastern Georgia, eastern South Carolina, and coastal North Carolina
were also producing plumes of smoke with southward and southeastward
movement. Of these, a fire in Chesterfield County, South Carolina,
was producing thick smoke, and two fires in Georgia were producing
moderate smoke.
Mexico/Central America/Southern Gulf of Mexico…
Numerous fires throughout central and southern Mexico, Belize, Guatemala,
and Honduras were producing localized plumes of thin smoke through
the morning and early afternoon. In addition, thin remnant smoke was
observed over central Mexico, and smoke from flaring operations in the
Bay of Campeche was visible extending northwestward.
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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