DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0042Z December 27, 2021
SMOKE:
Southern Florida...
Numerous agricultural fires primarily south of Lake Okeechobee in
southern Florida were emitting thin density smoke plumes which combined
into one large plumb that was moving quickly off to the southeast as
the evening approached.
SMOKE/AEROSOL:
Gulf of Mexico/Bay of Campeche/Mexico/Northwestern Central America/Pacific
Ocean South of Mexico and Central America...
The usual aerosol which has been seen fairly consistently for weeks
now was present again over portions of southern and eastern Mexico,
northwestern Central America, a sizable part of the tropical eastern
Pacific south of the Mexico and Central America coastlines, the Bay
of Campeche, and the western and central Gulf of Mexico. This aerosol
was likely composed in part of atmospheric pollutants including factory
emissions and emissions from gas/oil flaring and regional seasonal fire
activity occurring in portions of Mexico and northern Central America as
well as Cuba. While it is virtually impossible to distinguish the other
atmospheric pollutants from smoke in satellite imagery, it is believed
that there is a greater likelihood for smoke to be present along and off
the southern coast of Mexico and northwestern Central America over the
relatively nearby portion of the Pacific, and along and off the east coast
of Mexico over the Bay of Campeche and the far western Gulf of Mexico.
DUST:
Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado...
A large area of moderate blowing dust kicked up in southeastern Colorado
blowing northeast into Kansas and Nebraska as the evening approached.
Eglin
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