DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1700Z October 27, 2021
Corrected to add smoke plume for NC.
SMOKE:
The only large area of smoke that could be identified today so far
is that which has resulted from gas flaring activity in the Bay of
Campeche extending north-northwestward. Some likely very small smoke
output was observed in agricultural burning south of Lake Okeechobee
moving eastward. Two other smoke plumes were seen in south-central North
Carolina. Cloud cover exists across the central CONUS and central Canada,
along with scattered to broken cloud cover over the Pacific Northwest
and central British Columbia, which has not allowed for the analysis of
smoke in these areas.
DUST:
A thin layer of Saharan Dust was observed extending from the Sahara
across the tropical Atlantic to the Lesser Antilles, with some of the
layer moving north and northeast from there into the central Atlantic.
Hosley
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