THROUGH 1700Z April 4, 2021
Area from Central U.S. to the Eastern U.S…
Remnant thin density smoke was seen this morning stretching from the
Central U.S. across the Ohio Valley and southern Great Lakes region to the
Mid-Atlantic region and a portion of the Northeast and offshore over the
far western Atlantic. Within this larger mass of thin density smoke were
a few patches of moderately dense to perhaps even thick smoke generally
within the area from Missouri and northern Arkansas extending eastward
over western and central Kentucky and western Tennessee. This remnant
smoke was from days of concentrated seasonal fire activity and a few
embedded wildfires which were present across the Central U.S. primarily
from Oklahoma and Arkansas to southern Minnesota and southern Wisconsin.
Southeastern U.S…
A swath of leftover thin density smoke from yesterday’s seasonal
burning in the Southeastern U.S. was visible over southeastern Alabama,
southern Georgia, and northeastern Florida.
Mexico/Central America/Pacific south of Mexico and Central America…
A huge mass of thin density smoke from ongoing seasonal fire activity in
Mexico and Central America was seen this morning along much of southern
Mexico and northern Central America and extending from there to the
south over the Pacific. Embedded areas of thicker density smoke were
visible within this region especially over portions of southern Mexico
and extending offshore to the nearby Pacific.
DUST:
The rather large and significant area of Saharan dust continued to be
visible along and off the coast of western Africa extending westward
over the eastern Atlantic to the northeastern coast of South America.
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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