DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0200Z April 4, 2020
SMOKE:
Southeastern U.S...
Scattered mainly thin density smoke plumes were visible with seasonal
fire activity over the Southeastern U.S. from Alabama eastward across
Georgia, South Carolina, and southern North Carolina. Some of the smoke
plumes eventually merged forming larger areas of remnant thin density
smoke especially across eastern South Carolina and offshore.
Southern Texas/Gulf of Mexico/Mexico/Central America/Cuba...
Widespread seasonal fires were detected especially over portions of
southern and southeastern Mexico and Central America which resulted in
an extensive coverage of thinner density smoke impacting that region as
well as the Bay of Campeche, the southern and western portion of the Gulf
of Mexico, and southern Texas. More localized thicker smoke was visible
especially from fires in the Yucatan Peninsula and portions of Central
America. Farther to the east, more significant seasonal burning produced
widespread coverage of thinner density smoke over central and western
Cuba and the nearby offshore waters to the north and south of the island.
DUST:
Western U.S...
A broad area of aerosol which may be long range dust transport from Asia
could be seen just prior to sunset spreading eastward and inland over much
of California, western and northwestern Nevada, and southwestern Oregon.
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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