DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1720Z April 8, 2021
SMOKE:
Eastern U.S./Atlantic...
Mostly Light with some moderate density smoke was seen stretching from
across the eastern U.S. across the Ohio Valley and Great Lakes region,
most of the eastern U.S. and through the Coastal Atlantic region extending
offshore approximately 1,150 miles off the southeast coast from around
South Carolina. Within this larger mass of thin density smoke was a patch
of moderately dense smoke around south West Virginia, east Kansas, east
Tennessee, western Virginia, western North Carolina, and eastern South
Carolina. This smoke was from recent days of concentrated seasonal fire
activity and a few embedded wildfires which were present across the
Central U.S. and southeastern U.S.
Mexico, Gulf of Mexico, Central America, Eastern Pacific Ocean...
A large region of light density smoke was observed along coastal eastern
and southern Mexico as well as coastal Central America extending out
into the Gulf of Mexico. Light density smoke was also observed over parts
of Southern Mexico and the Eastern Pacific Ocean. The plumes appears
to consist of smoke from heavy seasonal burning in the region. Light
density smoke was observed from offshore drilling platforms in SW Gulf
of Mexico progressing northwest in direction.
DUST:
Atlantic, Caribbean Sea...
A large light density Saharan dust plume covers most of the central and
eastern tropical Atlantic but is edging closer to the eastern Caribbean
Sea..
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