DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1700Z January 13, 2022
SMOKE:
Gulf Coast Region/Northern Gulf of Mexico…
Areas of mainly leftover thin density smoke from yesterday’s round of
seasonal fire activity in the south central and southeastern U.S. was
seen this morning over portions of Louisiana, the southern part of
Mississippi and Alabama, the Florida panhandle, southwestern Georgia,
and portions of the northwestern and north central Gulf of Mexico. The
remnant smoke was moving primarily off to the east and southeast.
Hispaniola/Caribbean…
Moderate to thick density smoke from wildfires in the southwestern part
of the Dominican Republic was visible this morning moving to the east
with a larger surrounding batch of thinner density smoke extending to
the south and southwest of the fires over the Caribbean.
SMOKE/AEROSOL:
Western Gulf of Mexico/Bay of Campeche/Eastern and Southern
Mexico/Northwestern Central America/Pacific South of Mexico and Central
America…
Northerly flow suppressed the usual remnant smoke and other aerosols from
gas and oil flaring and other industrial pollutants across eastern Mexico,
the western Gulf of Mexico, and the Bay of Campeche. This along with
extensive cloud cover allowed for only a relatively small patch of the
remnant smoke from seasonal fire activity in eastern Mexico to be seen
over a sliver of eastern Mexico and the western Gulf of Mexico. Farther
to the south, sizable areas of aerosols from oil and gas flaring and
industrial activities combined with possible leftover thin density smoke
from regional seasonal type burning was visible this morning along and
off of portions of southern Mexico, northwestern Central America, and
well out over the Pacific to the south of these regions.
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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)
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SSDFireTeam@noaa.gov