DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1730Z October 30, 2020
SMOKE: California/Oregon/Nevada… A few wildfires in California were still producing moderate smoke this morning. These include the northern flank of the Creek Fire in Sierra National Forest, the eastern flank of the Red Salmon Complex in northeastern California, and the Slater/Devil Fire along the border with Oregon. The Creek Fire was producing heavy smoke near the source hand had a sizable area of remnant smoke from the past couple days, which was drifting south-southeast. The smoke emanating from these fires was being dominated by terrain flow local to each fire. South Florida… Scattered light smoke plumes were seen from burns in the agricultural area near and south of Lake Okeechobee. Smoke was mainly observed moving off toward the south-southeast. South Texas… As is the case with south Florida, scattered light smoke plumes were observed moving off toward the south in far southern Texas associated with agricultural burns. Some of the smoke had crossed the Rio Grande River and entered Tamaulipas. 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