DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1605Z October 25, 2021
SMOKE: Southeastern U.S./Lower Mississippi Valley... Light density remnant smoke from recent agricultural burning activity was observed over parts of the Southeastern U.S. and Lower Mississippi Valley. Cloud cover from a weather system progressing through the region made the extent of the remnant smoke difficult to determine in this morning’s GOES visible satellite imagery. DUST: Central and Eastern Tropical Atlantic/Western Atlantic and Eastern Caribbean Sea... A large region of Saharan dust was observed over the Central and Eastern tropical Atlantic. Light density Saharan dust was also observed over parts of the Eastern Caribbean Sea including the Lesser Antilles and to the northeast of Puerto Rico over the Western Atlantic in this morning 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) ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS REGARDING THIS PRODUCT SHOULD BE SENT TO: SSDFireTeam@noaa.gov