Sunday, May 9, 2021

DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0120Z May 10, 2021

SMOKE:
Arizona...
In central Arizona two light to moderate density smoke plumes attributed
to wildfires were observed moving northeast in direction near the New
Mexico boarder.

Southeast Manitoba...
In Southeast Manitoba a wildfire was producing a plume of mostly heavy
density smoke that was moving southwest in direction over eastern
North Dakota.

South Manitoba/Saskatchewan…
Widespread fire activity throughout south Saskatchewan/Manitoba were
producing a large amount of primarily light density smoke plumes. Smoke
was moving primarily southwest throughout the area.

Texas, 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 most of the Gulf of Mexico, it extends north into
southern Texas. Embedded patches of moderate to heavy density smoke were
visible in association with some of the more active fires especially in
Mexico, and along the coasts. This entire area of smoke is due mainly
to the ongoing seasonal fires in Mexico and Central America.

Eglin

DUST:
New Mexico/Northern Mexico...
Some blowing dust was seen across southeastern New Mexico and northern
Mexico which was moving to the northeast.

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

 


Unless otherwise indicated:
  • Areas of smoke are analyzed using GOES-EAST and GOES-WEST Visible satellite imagery.
  • Only a general description of areas of smoke or significant smoke plumes will be analyzed.
  • A quantitative assessment of the density/amount of particulate or the vertical distribution is not included.
  • Widespread cloudiness may prevent the detection of smoke even from significant fires.