THROUGH 0110Z April 4, 2021
Central U.S./Great Lakes Region…
Mostly Light to moderate density smoke (with some small areas of heavy
smoke) from recent rounds of intense seasonal burning and a few embedded
wildfires across portions of the Central U.S. was seen today extending
from central Kansas and eastern Oklahoma to the northeast to the western
and central Great Lakes region reaching as far as Lake Superior and the
southern part of Ontario. The thickest portion of the smoke stretched from
eastern Kansas and eastern Oklahoma northeastward over the Missouri/Iowa
boarder, through Illinois, Indiana, into Ohio and Michigan.
Southern Mexico/Northern Central America/Pacific south of Mexico and
Central America…
A large region of thin density smoke from the ongoing seasonal fire
activity in southern Mexico and Central America was visible today over
much of southern Mexico and Northern Central America and extending well
offshore to the south over the Pacific. Within this large region of thin
density smoke were smaller patches of moderately dense to even thick
smoke which emanated from fires in southern Mexico coast and spread to
the south off the coast.
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