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