DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1810Z April 14, 2020
SMOKE:
Cuba/Florida/Gulf of Mexico/Mexico/Central America…
Extensive smoke from widespread seasonal fires south of Lake Okeechobee
in Florida, throughout central and southern Mexico and Central America
was seen over eastern and southeastern Mexico, Central America, the
entirety of the Gulf of Mexico, northern portions of Cuba and central
Florida. Within this larger area of thinner density smoke was a region
of moderately dense to thick smoke which was affecting the area from
Honduras and Guatemala northward over the Yucatan Peninsula and southern
portions of Mexico to the central Gulf of Mexico.
Elsewhere...
Relatively little smoke was visible over the U.S. during the day with
a only a few light density smoke plumes visible in eastern Kansas where
a fairly concentrated area of seasonal fire activity was occurring.
JL
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