DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0000Z December 24, 2020
SMOKE...
Northern Florida/Southern Georgia…
Burning activity across northern Florida into southern Georgia was
observed emitting light smoke plumes that were moving off toward the
north-northeast. Further smoke may be present with cloud cover present
over other portions of the southeast, including thin high-level cloud
cover over Georgia through which one or two smoke plumes were seen.
Central Mexico…
Fire activity from the Zacatecas/San Luis Potosi state border to northern
Michoacan was observed emitting light smoke plumes that were mainly
moving east.
Eastern Mexico…
Fire activity across eastern Mexico (mainly in Tamaulipas and northern
Veracruz) was observed emitting mainly light smoke plumes that were
moving north, with a northeastern movement closer to the higher elevations
well inland.
BLOWING DUST…
Western Plains…
A strong wind event across the central CONUS was observed lofting dust
from east-central Colorado and transporting it south-southeastward across
far western Kansas, the Oklahoma Panhandle, the northern Texas Panhandle,
and north-central Texas.
South-central New Mexico into northern Chihuahua…
Dust and sand from White Sands National Park in south-central New
Mexico was being lofted and transported south across El Paso, TX and
just entering northern Chihuahua in Mexico.
Jalisco…
More blowing dust was observed emanating from the area near and just
east of Guadalajara north of Lago de Chapala. The dust from here was
moving off toward the east.
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