Tuesday, March 9, 2021

DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0100Z March 10, 2021

SMOKE:
Lower/Central Mississippi Valley, Western Atlantic Ocean and Southeastern
U.S...
Widespread agricultural burning, prescribed burning, and seasonal
fire activity was observed over most of the Southeastern United States
including Northern Florida,
Southern Georgia, most of Alabama, Mississippi, and Tennessee. Fire
activity was also observed over most of the Lower/Mid Mississippi Valley
including Louisiana, parts of Arkansas, Missouri, and Illinois. A large
region of light density smoke and several regions of moderate to thick
density smoke were observed over parts of these regions from the fire
activity. A small region of remnant light density smoke was also observed
off the Mid Atlantic coast out over part of the Western Atlantic Ocean
in this evening’s GOES visible satellite imagery.

Central America, Southern Mexico, Bay of Campeche, and Eastern Pacific
Ocean ...
A large region of light and moderate density smoke was observed over
most of coastal Southern Mexico as well as coastal Central America
including off the coast of Guatemala, El Salvador, and Nicaragua to
several hundred miles offshore out over the Eastern Pacific Ocean. Light
density smoke was also observed over parts of the Bay of Campeche from
offshore drilling platforms as well as over parts of the Mexican States
of Eastern Oaxaca, Southern Veracruz, and Tabasco in this evening’s
GOES visible satellite imagery.

Bahamas...
A small fire complex was observed on Northern Great Abaco Island emitting
light to moderate density smoke progressing westward over parts of the
Bahamas Grand Bahama Island this evening.

DUST:
Earlier today:
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.

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.