DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1600Z October 28, 2021
SMOKE:
Central/Western/Southwestern Gulf of Mexico and Southeastern U.S...
A large region of remnant light density smoke likely attributed to recent
agricultural burning and seasonal fire activity in the Southeastern
U.S. and parts of Eastern and Southern coastal Mexico was observed behind
a weather system over parts of the Central, Western, and Southwestern
Gulf of Mexico. Smoke analysis was difficult to determine over the
Southeastern U.S due to a weather system progressing through the region
in this morning’s GOES visible satellite imagery.
Central/Southeastern British Columbia...
Wildfire activity was observed over parts of Central and Southeastern
British Columbia however cloud cover from a weather system progressing
through the region made smoke analysis difficult in this morning’s
GOES visible satellite imagery.
South Central Canada including British Columbia and Alberta...
Multiple wildfires were observed yesterday in Northeastern British
Columbia and Northwestern Alberta, however as of this morning no large
regions of smoke have been observed from the fire activity.
Dust:
Central/Eastern Caribbean and Central/Eastern Tropical Atlantic...
A large region of Saharan dust was observed over most of the Eastern and
Central tropical Atlantic. Saharan dust was also observed to the west
of this region over most of the Eastern Caribbean including the Lesser
Antilles and parts of the Central Caribbean to the south of Hispaniola,
Jamaica, and over Puerto Rico in this morning’s GOES visible satellite
imagery.
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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