DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0100Z MAY 27, 2020
SMOKE:
Gulf of Mexico/Mexico/Central America…
A large area of smoke was observed spanning an area encompassing much of
the Gulf of Mexico, nearly all of southern Mexico, and nearly all of the
Yucatan Peninsula. Much of this area of smoke is light in nature. However,
smoke over and around the Bay of Campeche extending westward into the
state of Guerrero is moderate to heavily dense. Guerrero is where the
most dense smoke resides, with a thick blanket covering much of the
state. Along the northern edge of this area of smoke, smoke is moving
eastward. The thick blanket of smoke across Guerrero is slowly moving
southward. There is also transport from the Bay of Campeche into the
Gulf of Tehuantepec.
North Dakota/Northern Minnesota…
A dozen or two small individual smoke plumes across the northern Plains
resulted in an area of light to locally moderately dense smoke moving
east to east-southeast from North Dakota and far northwestern Minnesota
into much of northwestern and north-central Minnesota.
Hosley
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