DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1801Z May 7, 2020
SMOKE: Mexico/Central America… Fire activity remains high across the entire region. A large plume of stagnant light-to-moderate density smoke covers most of southern Mexico. Southeast U.S. … There were fires throughout the southeast corner of the U.S. emitting light-density smoke plumes towards the southeast and continues to move counter-clockwise. There was a particular fire off the FL panhandle that continued emitting light smoke towards the southwest. Its remnant smoke continued moving west across the GoM reaching south of Louisiana. Saskatchewan and Manitoba, Canada… Several fires throughout the southern provinces of Saskatchewan and Manitoba in Canada that were emitting light density smoke plumes towards the south and continuing counter-clockwise towards the west. 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