DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0200Z March 9, 2021
SMOKE:
Southern Plains, Mississippi Valley, Gulf of Mexico, and Southeastern
U.S...
Widespread agricultural burning, prescribed burning activity, and seasonal
fire activity was observed over a large part of the Southeastern United
States including Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, and Mississippi. Fire
activity was also observed over parts of the Southern Plains including
Eastern Oklahoma and Texas as well as over parts of the Lower and Mid
Mississippi Valley mostly over Louisiana, Arkansas, and Missouri. A
large region of light density smoke and some regions of moderate density
smoke were observed over these regions. Smoke was also observed over
parts of the Northeastern Gulf of Mexico in the evening’s GOES visible
satellite imagery.
Coastal Southern Mexico, Coastal Central America, and Eastern Pacific
Ocean...
A large region of light and moderate density smoke was observed several
hundred miles offshore over parts of the Eastern Pacific Ocean including
Coastal Southern Mexico and Coastal Central America including off the
coast of Eastern Guatemala, El Salvador, and Nicaragua in this evening’s
GOES visible satellite imagery.
Earlier today:
A rather large area of thin density smoke attributed to seasonal fires,
gas flaring activity, as well as urban pollution and aerosols covers
the southern coast of Mexico and extends over portions of the Eastern
Pacific South of Mexico.
DUST:
Eastern Atlantic Ocean...
A large region of light density Saharan dust was observed off the coast
of West Africa out over parts of the Eastern Atlantic Ocean.
Earlier today:
Pacific Northwest...
An area of dust from portions of Asia was seen pushing into portions of
the northeastern Pacific.
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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