THROUGH 0200Z March 24, 2021
Florida... In central and southern Florida two large light to moderate smoke plumes attributed to seasonal fire activity were observed moving in a northerly direction. Eastern Mexico/Bay of Campeche/Western Gulf of Mexico/Southern Texas… Thin density smoke attributed to the daily seasonal fire activity occurring in Mexico along with some contribution from oil rig flaring in the Bay of Campeche was seen this morning across the Gulf of Mexico, eastern Mexico, and southern Texas. Southern Mexico/Northern Central America/Pacific south of Mexico… An aerosol likely composed mainly of thin density smoke could be seen along portions of southern Mexico and northern Central America and extending to the south offshore over the Pacific. This smoke is from the daily seasonal fire activity occurring in southern Mexico and Central America. Mexico... Agricultural burning activity was observed throughout Mexico causing a large number of light to moderate density smoke plumes. Cuba... Agricultural burning activity was observed throughout Cuba causing a large number of light to moderate density smoke plumes observed in a northerly direction. DUST: Southern and Central-Texas, Louisiana, Southern Arkansas, Mexico... A swath of leftover thin to perhaps moderate density blowing dust kicked up yesterday over western Texas and northern Mexico was visible this afternoon across northern Mexico, and all of southern Texas. The dust then extended to the north over most of Louisiana and southern Arkansas. It is not known how far north the dust extended from satellite imagery due to extensive cloud cover over portions of the central U.S. Eglin 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