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