DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0001Z July 11, 2020
SMOKE:
New Mexico...
Two wildfires in the southwestern part of the state are producing
a light density plume which is spreading slowly southwest into
north-central Mexico and then moving northwest back into SE Arizona. Cloud
coverage made it difficult to visibly see any smoke closer to the fires.
Florida…
Several clustered fires in the Flint Rock Wildlife Management Area in
St. Marks, Florida. The fires produced a light density smoke plume which
spread southeast across the Gulf of Mexico and back towards Central
Florida. There was a moderate to heavy smoke plume closer to the fires.
DUST:
Caribbean/Tropical Atlantic...
A large thin plume of dust from a Saharan Air Layer (SAL) covers most
of the Caribbean Sea and western tropical Atlantic. A very large
thick plume of dust from another SAL is over the central and eastern
tropical Atlantic which will spread westward over the next several
days.
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