DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1600Z May 16, 2021
SMOKE:
North Central and Northeastern U.S./South Central and Southeastern
Canada/Atlantic off the Northeast U.S. Coast…
A couple of sizable areas of leftover smoke from the recent
seasonal/agricultural fire activity across the north central U.S. and
south central Canada and also from a few possible wildfires in the more
forested areas of southwestern Manitoba were visible this morning. One of
the areas of thin to moderately dense smoke stretched from eastern and
southeastern Ontario over southern Quebec, and across a good portion of
the Northeastern U.S. before passing over the Atlantic off the Northeast
U.S. coast. The moderately dense portions of smoke were seen in a narrow
swath across southeastern Ontario, central New York, and southern Vermont
and New Hampshire. A second moderately dense area of smoke was moving to
the east over the Atlantic off the Northeast U.S. coast. Farther to the
west, another patch of thin density smoke was located over eastern North
Dakota, western Minnesota, southeastern Manitoba, and western Ontario.
Mexico/Pacific south of Mexico…
A broad area of thin to moderately dense smoke was seen this morning over
portions of central, southern, and southwestern Mexico, and extending to
the south and southwest well off the Mexico coast over the Pacific. The
embedded moderately dense to thick batch of smoke was visible over
southern Mexico and the nearby Pacific just off the southern Mexico coast.
DUST:
Eastern Caribbean Islands…
The large area of Saharan dust continues to spread relatively slowly
to the west across the tropical Atlantic and over the eastern Caribbean
Islands including Puerto Rico.
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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