DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0200Z October 13, 2021
SMOKE: California and the Baja... A large fire over coastal southwestern California was producing an area of smoke that was extending southeast offshore coastal southern California and into the northern Baja. Within this area of smoke, moderate to high density smoke plume was extending from coastal southwest California southeast to offshore coastal southern California. DUST: Atlantic... A large area of Saharan dust was covering much of the central and eastern Tropical Atlantic Ocean. The dust extended west to near the eastern Caribbean Islands and then further northwest to portions of the southwest Atlantic Ocean. Northern Mexico, New Mexico and Southern Plains…. Areas of blowing dust were seen over portions of northern Mexico extending northeast into eastern New Mexico and also over portions of western Texas extending north through western Oklahoma and western Kansas. Hanna 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