DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1700Z November 8, 2021
SMOKE:
Southern Florida…
A number of smoke plumes of generally thin density were seen moving to
the south this morning from agricultural fires near and south of Lake
Okeechobee in southern Florida.
South Central and Southeastern U.S…
Developing smoke plumes were observed this morning with
agricultural/seasonal fire activity scattered across the south central and
southeastern U.S. In addition, larger patches of leftover thin density
smoke from yesterday’s round of burning were visible over Arkansas
and Louisiana.
North Central U.S…
Leftover areas of thin density smoke attributed to recent
agricultural/seasonal fire activity occurring in the south central and
southeastern U.S. were seen stretching from Nebraska to the U.P. of
Michigan and from northeastern Indiana over northwestern Ohio and
southeastern Michigan.
DUST:
Eastern Caribbean…
Some very thin Saharan dust was visible early this morning over the far
eastern Caribbean region to the south and east of 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