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