DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0000Z December 30, 2021
SMOKE:
Southern Florida...
Agricultural fires throughout the Florida Peninsula were observed this
afternoon producing a few light smoke plumes primarily moving northeast,
with one plume originating from a fire in Osceola County extending over
the Atlantic Ocean.
SMOKE/AEROSOL:
Gulf of Mexico/Mexico/Northwestern Central America/Pacific Ocean/South
Texas...
A typical mix of smoke and aerosols from seasonal burning and oil
and gas flaring continued to be observed over coastal portions of
southern and eastern Mexico, northwestern Central America, an area in
the tropical eastern Pacific south and west of the Mexico and Central
America coastlines, and the western and Gulf of Mexico including the
Bay of Campeche extending north into extreme southern Texas.
DUST:
Texas…
A plume of dust was again observed this afternoon blowing eastward from
near the Texas/New Mexico border to just west of the Fort Worth area
by sunset.
MTC
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