Wednesday, February 24, 2021

DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0200Z February 25, 2021

SMOKE:
Southeastern United States...
Widespread agricultural burning and seasonal fire activity was observed
over most of the Southeastern United States. The fire activity was
mostly observed over Southeastern Mississippi, most of Alabama,
most of Georgia, parts of North Carolina, parts of South Carolina,
and over Northern Florida. A large region of light density and several
regions of moderate to thick density smoke were observed from the fire
activity. The smoke is progressing northeastward in this evening's GOES
visible satellite imagery.

Southern Texas, Eastern Mexico, and Southwestern/Western Gulf of Mexico...
A large region of light density smoke from agricultural burning activity
over Eastern Mexico was observed over most of the Western Gulf of
Mexico as well as over most of Eastern Coastal Mexico and northward over
parts of South Texas. Light to moderate density smoke was also observed
over parts of the Southwestern Gulf of Mexico from offshore drilling
platforms in the Bay of Campeche with the smoke progressing northward
in this evening's GOES visible satellite imagery.

California...
Light density smoke from agricultural burning activity was observed
progressing southward over the San Joaquin Valley in this evening's GOES
visible satellite imagery.

DUST:
Earlier today:
Central/Eastern Atlantic Ocean...
A region of Saharan dust was observed extending off the coast of Africa
as well as across the Tropical Atlantic Ocean, and just east of the
Caribbean Islands in earlier GOES visible satellite imagery.

This Evening:
Small regions of blowing dust were observed over Southern New Mexico
and Western Nevada in this evening’s GOES visible satellite imagery.

Sambucci


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

 


Unless otherwise indicated:
  • Areas of smoke are analyzed using GOES-EAST and GOES-WEST Visible satellite imagery.
  • Only a general description of areas of smoke or significant smoke plumes will be analyzed.
  • A quantitative assessment of the density/amount of particulate or the vertical distribution is not included.
  • Widespread cloudiness may prevent the detection of smoke even from significant fires.