DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0152Z December 31, 2020
SMOKE… Mexico… Scattered fire activity across eastern Mexico including Tamaulipas and Veracuz were observed emitting thin smoke plumes. Additional scattered fire activity in central and northern Mexico was also producing thin smoke plumes. More concentrated fire activity near the border of Mexico and southern California was also observed emitting long streams of light density smoke that moved toward the south. Florida… A handful of light density smoke plumes were observed moving west toward Lake Okeechobee in east-central Florida peninsula earlier today. No other areas of smoke were observed due to an exceptional amount of cloud cover throughout the entirety of the United States and Canada. Snow cover in the central plains also decreased visibility of potential thin smoke plumes associated with widespread agricultural fire activity. -J.Levine 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