Thursday, February 25, 2021

DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0200Z February 26, 2021

SMOKE:
Southeastern United States/Western Atlantic Ocean...
Widespread agricultural burning and seasonal fire activity was observed
over a large portion of the Southeastern United States. The fire activity
was observed mostly over Eastern Alabama, most of Georgia, most of
South Carolina, parts of North Carolina, and parts of Florida. A large
region of light density smoke and several regions of moderate to thick
density smoke were observed from the fire activity. The smoke from the
fire activity is progressing southeastward towards the Western Atlantic
Ocean, where a large region of yesterday’s remnant light density smoke
and a small region of remnant moderate density smoke was observed in
this evening's GOES visible satellite imagery.

Eastern/Southern Mexico/Southern Gulf of Mexico...
A large region of light to moderate density smoke from offshore drilling
platforms in the Bay of Campeche was observed over a large portion of
the Southern Gulf of Mexico. Light density smoke from seasonal fire
activity was also observed over parts of Coastal Eastern and Southern
Mexico in this evening’s GOES visible satellite imagery.

Northwestern Mexico/Northern Baja of California...
A small region of light density smoke was observed over Northwestern
Mexico and the Northern Baja of California in this evening’s GOES
visible satellite imagery.

DUST:
Southern Arizona/Northern Mexico..
Small regions of blowing dust were observed over Southern Arizona and
Northern Mexico progressing eastward behind a weather system observed
in this evening’s GOES visible satellite imagery.

Earlier today...
A large area of Saharan Dust was seen over much of the Tropical Atlantic
and extending westward to near the eastern Caribbean Islands in the
earlier 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.