DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1630Z May 11, 2021
SMOKE:
Northern Ohio River Valley/North Central United States/South Central
Canada...
A region of light and several small regions of moderate density smoke
attributed to recent agricultural and seasonal fire activity was
observed. Light density smoke was observed over parts of the Northern
Ohio River Valley with moderate density smoke observed as well over
parts of Central Illinois, Central Indiana, and Western Ohio. Light to
moderate density smoke was also observed over the North Central United
States including most of the Dakotas, Eastern Montana, and Western
Minnesota. Light to moderate density smoke was observed as well over
parts of South Central Canada including Central/Eastern Saskatchewan,
and Western/Southern Manitoba Province in this morning’s GOES visible
satellite imagery.
.
Mexico/Gulf of Mexico/Bay of Campeche/Central America/Eastern Pacific
Ocean...
A large region of light density and several regions of moderate to
thick smoke attributed to ongoing widespread agricultural and seasonal
fire activity was observed. Light density smoke was observed over
most of Western and Southwestern Mexico including the Southern Gulf
of California and also to the south of Mexico over parts of the Eastern
Pacific Ocean. Light density smoke was also observed over parts of Central
America including Southern Belize, Western Honduras, parts of Guatemala,
and El Salvador. Light density smoke was observed over most of Eastern
Coastal Mexico and the Western Gulf of Mexico/Bay of Campeche. Moderate to
thick density smoke was observed over the Mexican states of Southeastern
Veracruz, Northern Chiapas, and Western Tabasco in recent GOES visible
satellite imagery.
.
DUST:
Eastern/Central Atlantic Ocean and Southeastern Caribbean Sea...
A large region of light density Saharan dust was observed over parts of
the Eastern and Central Tropical Atlantic Ocean. Light density Saharan
dust was also observed to the west of this region over parts of the
Southern Lesser Antilles as well as over parts of the Southeastern
Caribbean Sea and coastal Northeastern South America in this morning’s
GOES visible satellite imagery.
Sambucci
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)
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SSDFireTeam@noaa.gov