DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1606Z May 6, 2020
SMOKE:
Southern Texas/Gulf of Mexico/Mexico/Central America/Eastern Pacific…
An enormous area of primarily light density smoke emitting from a
tremendous amount of fire activity throughout southern Mexico and into
Central America. The area of smoke extended from the southeastern
Gulf of Mexico from near the Florida Keys west through the Gulf of
Mexico to southern Texas, eastern and southern Mexico to portions of
the eastern Pacific to south of the Baja. Within this area, moderate
density smoke extended from portions of the southwest Gulf of Mexico
through southern Mexico and then along the southwest coast of Mexico in
the eastern Pacific.
DUST:
Caribbean Sea….
An area of Saharan Dust was located over most of the Caribbean Sea
extending west into portions of Central America.
Hanna
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