DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0100Z April 29, 2021
SMOKE: U.S./Canada: This afternoon most of the U.S. and Canada became mostly cloud covered excluding a full analysis of smoke plumes, the constant Mexico related smoke is below followed by the smoke update provided at 1800Z that did not get posted earlier due to web page issues. is below. Texas, Louisiana, Gulf of Mexico/Bay of Campeche/Mexico/Central America/Pacific south of Mexico... A large area of light to moderate density smoke remains in the area covering much of northern and all of central/southern Mexico, northern Central America, a portion of the Pacific south of Mexico, the Bay of Campeche, and the southwest portion of the Gulf of Mexico. Embedded patches of moderate density smoke were visible in association with some of the more active fires especially in Mexico, and along the coast of eastern Mexico and the far western Gulf of Mexico. This entire area of smoke was due mainly to the ongoing seasonal fires in Mexico and Central America. Eglin THROUGH 1800Z April 28, 2021 SMOKE: Mexico/Gulf of Mexico/Lower Mississippi Valley... Widespread agricultural burns continue across parts of Mexico with a thin density plume covering most of central and eastern Mexico, the Bay of Campeche, the western Gulf of Mexico, eastern Texas, and most of Louisiana and Arkansas. An area of moderate density smoke was detected over the southern Bay of Campeche. Central Plains to Great Lakes... A remnant thin density plume from the previous day wildfire in New Mexico was detected extending from the Texas/Oklahoma Panhandles northeastward through parts of Kansas, Nebraska, and Iowa into the Great Lakes region. Ohio Valley/Mid-Atlantic/Atlantic... Another remnant thin density plume from the previous day wildfire in New Mexico was detected over the Ohio Valley extending east-southeast across the Mid-Atlantic into the Atlantic out to near Bermuda. A moderate density plume was located from just south of Long Island to about halfway between Cape Hatteras and Bermuda. DUST: Atlantic... A thin plume of Saharan dust was detected over the far eastern tropical Atlantic. Konon 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