DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1630Z January 1, 2022
SMOKE:
Florida…
More thin to very localized moderate density smoke was being produced
again this morning from agricultural fires near and to the west, south,
and east of Lake Okeechobee in southern Florida. The smoke appeared to
move quickly off to the north. Additional patches of leftover thin density
smoke from yesterday’s round of fire activity in Florida was visible
along and off the west central part of the peninsula and across central
and east central Florida extending off the east and northeast coast.
SMOKE/AEROSOL:
Gulf of Mexico/Bay of Campeche/Mexico/Cuba/Northwestern Central
America/Pacific Ocean South of Mexico and Central America/U.S. Gulf
Coast…
A mix of primarily thin density smoke from seasonal type fires occurring
in Mexico and northern Central America and Cuba along with aerosols from
oil and gas flaring and other industrial pollution sources was observed
this morning over a large region including southern Mexico and a portion
of northwestern Central America and extending well off the coastal areas
of Mexico and Central America to the south over the tropical eastern
Pacific. The mix of aerosols also was seen along and off the eastern
portion of Mexico and over the Bay of Campeche and the western Gulf of
Mexico, and over the northern Gulf of Mexico and likely inland across
portions of far southern and southeastern Texas, southern Louisiana,
southern Mississippi and Alabama and a portion of the western Florida
panhandle. It was not known from satellite imagery how far inland the
aerosols extended in the south central and southeastern U.S. due to cloud
cover. Another band of aerosols linked mainly to emissions from industry
over northwestern Cuba stretched to the northwest over the eastern Gulf
of Mexico.
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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